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 ... of the armor and swords had eroded ...

They even recovered a “severely rusted” bronze sword, they believe ... around the second century BCE. The Han dynasty established the Silk Road as the Shang rose to prominence around 1750 ...

A recent study published in the journal Archaeometry investigates the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese imitation mirrors during the Kofun period (c. 300–538 CE). Lead author ...