Chinese cultural relics researchers announced a new discovery on Saturday, ... According to Bai, scale armor is mostly found in Han Dynasty tombs and is usually made with a single material, ...

A set of scale armor dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25) was recently found in the tomb of Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun. ... Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ...

Whereas Han Dynasty scales reached a size of about 1.57 to 3.94 inches wide, the refined armor scales in Liu He’s tomb were unusually small at .39 inches wide and .02 inches thick, putting the ...