Lamellar armor

Tibetan lamellar armor and helmet, 17th c or earlier, Iron, leather, textile, unusually complete, twice as many rows as similar armors, the only example in a Western collection, one of the few in the world, that has full armored sleeves. Similar sleeves of this rare form have also been found in the ruins of Tsaparang, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Guge, in Ngari (western Tibet), very complete and well preserved eight-plate lamellar type helmet. National Museums of Scotland.

An Avar helmet, which was adopted by the Huns from the Avar, a nomadic equestrian society in Central Asia.

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Golden Horde warrior

Since a few years I've been thinking about the idea of Gondor, and obviously it's soldiers, looking somewhat like the Byzantines. I even made a drawing of Imrahil and his knights as cataphracts! Now I'm just trying to make illustrations following this idea. You could call this a project maybe? I'm really awful at making things like that. I make something one month, and then I make the continuation of it 6 months later because I get distracted with other ideas... If this was a historical…

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