The ancient Chinese legend that Tang dynasty rulers donned gold-plated armor in battle had long been mere myth—until now.

That changed this month, when researchers in China unveiled a restored suit of gilded bronze armor from a royal tomb on the ...

For generations, historians treated tales of a Tang dynasty suit of golden armor as courtly exaggeration, a flourish in ...

The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.

Writers in the Tang period described “golden armor,” but archaeologists had not previously had a physical example to examine. That gap is what makes this restoration notable: the conservation work ...

Suits of plate armor were developed back in the Middle Ages. They served as protection during battle, but they also became an art. Here in the 21st century, one metalwork artist is keeping this ...