From Roman "fish scale" armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress. Live Science. 7 centuries-old suits of battle armor from around the world.

"Samurai, Sunrise, Sunset" features 120 pieces on loan from the Museo Stibbert in Florence, Italy, ranging from eight full sets of samurai armor and all kinds of weaponry (swords, spears and even ...

Samurai “clearly understood the functional requirements of armor,” Gabriel Barbier-Mueller, who with his wife, Ann, is the most important collector of samurai regalia outside Japan, said in a ...

FUKUSHIMA, Japan >> In a spectacle that seemed straight from a picture scroll of Japan’s Warring States period, the three-day ...

From Roman "fish scale" armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...