Here’s how it works. About 2,500 years ago, a man in northwest China was buried with armor made of more than 5,000 leather scales, a military garment fashioned so intricately, its design looks ...

No borders for innovations: A ca. 2700-year-old Assyrian-style leather scale armour in Northwest China. Quaternary International , 2021; DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.014 Cite This Page : ...

According to a report by Live Science, a man in northwest China was buried about 2,500 years ago with armor made of more than 5,000 leather scales. The military garment was so intricately ...

Made of iron, copper, and leather, the multi-material armor scales are the first and smallest of its kind ever discovered in Han Dynasty archaeology. Found in the west part of the outer coffin of ...

The Army recently ordered more than $40 million worth of its latest body armor ... Vest, the precursor to the Army IOTV, as well as four generations of the IOTV. "We continue to receive large ...

When the bullet hit the new vest materials, however, it effectively “vaporised” one of the super-hard ceramic scales and lost most of its kinetic energy, disappearing without a trace ...