The 'bionic' armor was fashioned with 'fish-like' scales.
It’s only the second-known find of its kind. Archaeologists say the armor found in a 2,500-year-old burial site in China is an early example of bionics, reports say., 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 fashioned that its design looks like the overlapping scales of a fish, a new study finds.
The study’s lead researcher Patrick Wertmann, a researcher at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies of the University of Zurich said, “It is a light, highly efficient one-size-fits-all defensive garment for soldiers of a mass army,” NewsConcerns cited.that the design of this type of armor “is unique for its time and place.” It is thought to have originated from the Middle East and was likely imported from there.
While the only other well-preserved leather scale armor found that has a known provenance, was discovered in the ancient Egyptian tomb of, from the 14th century B.C., another, of unknown origin, dating from the eighth to the third century B.C., is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Live Science noted.
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