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.php/gladius/article/viewFile/21/22
Tutankhamun's leather scale (or lamellar?) armor
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/amazing-revelation-suggests-king-tutankhamun-wore-battle-armor-and-was-not-a-feeble-child/
Roman Lorica Squamata
https://www.roma-victrix.com/summa-divisio/armamentarium/loricae-et-ocreae/lorica-squamata-i-v-sec-d-c.html
http://www.roman-artifacts.com/Armor%20Fragments%20&%20Attachments/Cavalry%20or%20Legionary%20Squamata/Legionary%20or%20Cavalry%20scale%20mail.htm
Subeixi or Scythian leather scale
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/26565
The Repton Warrior (possible evidence of Saxon scale armor)
http://thethegns.blogspot.ca/2011/10/repton-warrior-saxon-scale-armour.html
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