Leather scale armour from Xinjiang - maybe Assyrian???

[Duncan Head]

A poster on the dbmmlist linked to the following:
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-year-old-leather-armor-technology-antiquity.html

The original article is available at:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618221005553?via%3Dihub - and hit "View PDF".

This is a fascinating find, though I find the direct connection to Assyria weak in the extreme.

[Erpingham]

Here is Sean Manning's take on the report.  He isn't impressed by the Assyrian speculation either.

[Duncan Head]

Nor is Nigel Tallis, who's talked about it briefly on the dbmmlist.

Thanks for the link to Sean's piece, it's very interesting.

[Jon Freitag]

When I read the article, I was skeptical too.  Making a tenuous link to Assyria using this artifact and an artifact in the MET of unknown provenance seemed a bit of a leap of faith to me.