This is an introduction to a type of historical protection that seems pretty popular in fantasy settings in one form or another. Not quite as iconic and ubiquitous as a mail hauberk, but arguably cooler looking. :)

*Next Video* - Crossbow and Guns vs. scale armor:
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Timothy Dawson, Armor Never Wearies. Scale and Lamellar Armour in the West, from the Bronze Age to the 19th Century
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David Nicolle, Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era 1050-1350: Western Europe and the Crusader States (Volume 1)
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Arms & Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350: Islam, Eastern Europe and Asia (Volume 2)
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Bengt Thordeman, Armour from the Battle of Wisby
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Hugh C. Rogers and Donald J. LaRocca, A New World Find of European Scale Armor
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Tutankhamun's leather scale (or lamellar?) armor
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Roman Lorica Squamata
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Subeixi or Scythian leather scale
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The Repton Warrior (possible evidence of Saxon scale armor)
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