[BenLurkin]

( Lunstream / Adobe Stock)

Closeup images of the Yanghai leather scale armor fragment: A: inside; B: outside. (P. Wertmann / Quaternary International )

[BenLurkin]

ping

[Red Badger]

Cheap Chinese copy, of course........................

[dadfly]

two examples in the world huh? wow, maybe “rare” can still mean rare sometimes.

[reed13k]

“Chinese leather armor”

I don’t think they are using this term correctly.... the whole basis of the article is that the armor was made in Mesopotamia and not China...they should instead be calling it either middle-easter, Mesopotamian, or neo-assyrian armor.

The only reason to call it Chinese is because of where it was geographically unearthed.

[blueunicorn6]

The best protection for a Chinese warrior was a steaming serving of General Tso’s chicken.

[blueunicorn6]

The guy on the left is wearing a dress and the guy on the right has some kind of wrench.

So this ancient Chinese army was made up of transvestite plumbers.

[Little Ray]

They need to see if they can do some genetic analysis of the bones.

[ClearCase_guy]

They both bought the armor from some rich Corinthian guy.

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[bunkerhill7]

if you look closely at the lower right hand corner it says “Made in China”.

[rfp1234]

What is the capital of Neo-Assyria?

[nicollo]

an ancient horse-riding soldier in Northwest China .... These tests showed the armor had been created sometime between 786 and 543 BC.

Horses date back into the Shang era, but weren't used with riders in Chinese warfare until the BC 4th century, so these soldiers came from somewhere else.

[Adder]

Needs a little oil...should bring it right back...