Assyrian armour found in China

[Sean Manning]

It's astounding that things like glued linen armour and Assyrian leather scale (it must be theirs <in China!!>, D'oh, because we haven't found enough Assyrian armour), ever makes it to publication... Is this stuff peer reviewed??
I can't imagine Tom Hulit coming to that conclusion.

I was surprised to see Bret Devereaux, who covered ancient armour in his PhD thesis, sharing the article with no warning that the connection with Assyria is unlikely. This is a cool find, it lets us set the armour in the Met in context, but its not from the Assyrian empire or a copy of armour from the Assyrian empire.