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. :)

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** Sources **

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
http://gladius.revistas.csic.es/index...

Tutankhamun's leather scale (or lamellar?) armor
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blo...

Roman Lorica Squamata
https://www.roma-victrix.com/summa-di...
http://www.roman-artifacts.com/Armor%...

Subeixi or Scythian leather scale
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...

The Repton Warrior (possible evidence of Saxon scale armor)
http://thethegns.blogspot.ca/2011/10/...

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