The legendary "golden armour" of Tang Dynasty soldiers has been reconstructed in full for the first time in history, after centuries of mystery. Chinese archaeologists have just unveiled a stunning ...

The ancient leather scale armor could be dated to the period between 786 and 543 BC. (D.L. Xu, P. Wertmann, M. Yibulayinmu.) In the remote Yanghai cemetery near Turfan, Northwest China, a team of ...

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 Liu ...

In the early morning hours of May 18, two volumes of the famous Chu Silk Manuscript arrived in Beijing. The earliest known examples of silk books ever discovered, the manuscripts date to around the ...