2,700 Year Old Equestrian Armor In Assyrian-Style Leather Evidence Of Technology Transfer In Antiquity

The old leather scales armor could be dated to the period between 786 and 543 BC. (Image: DL Xu, P. Wertmann, M. Yibulayinmu)

Scientists from the University of Zurich examined a unique leather scale armor from the grave of a horseman in northwest China. The style and construction suggest that the tank was made between the 6th and 8th centuries BC in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and was transported to China from there.

An almost completely preserved leather scale tank was first discovered in 2013 in the grave of a 30-year-old man near today’s city of Turfan in northwest China. Due to the extreme drought, the find was able to last for thousands of years…

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