Lamellar armourLamellar armour is a type of body armour, made from small rectangular plates (scales or lamellae) of iron or steel, leather (rawhide), or bronze laced into horizontal rows. Lamellar armour was used over a wide range of time periods in Central Asia, Eastern Asia (especially in China, Japan, Mongolia, and Tibet), Western Asia, and Eastern Europe. The earliest evidence for lamellar armour comes from sculpted artwork of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BCE) in the Near East.
Campaign history of the Roman militaryFrom its origin as a city-state on the peninsula of Italy in the 8th century BC, to its rise as an empire covering much of Southern Europe, Western Europe, Near East and North Africa to its fall in the 5th century AD, the political history of Ancient Rome was closely entwined with its military history. The core of the campaign history of the Roman military is an aggregate of different accounts of the Roman military's land battles, from its initial defense against and subsequent conquest of the city's hilltop neighbors on the Italian peninsula, to the ultimate struggle of the Western Roman Empire for its existence against invading Huns, Vandals and Germanic tribes.
Parthian artParthian art was Iranian art made during the Parthian Empire from 247 BC to 224 AD, based in the Near East. It has a mixture of Persian and Hellenistic influences. For some time after the period of the Parthian Empire, art in its styles continued for some time. A typical feature of Parthian art is the frontality of the people shown. Even in narrative representations, the actors do not look at the object of their action, but at the viewer. These are features that anticipate the art of medieval Europe and Byzantium.
Sarissevignette|Détail de la fresque d'une tombe d'Ágios Athanásios montrant des guerriers macédoniens portant la sarisse, Thessalonique, fin du La sarisse (en grec ancien ) est une lance d'une longueur de à à partir du premier quart du Cette arme, mise au point en Macédoine sous le règne de Philippe II au milieu du , est utilisée dans les phalanges de sarissophores (« porteurs de sarisses ») durant les conquêtes d'Alexandre le Grand et les guerres des Diadoques. Elle reste en usage dans les armées des royaumes hellénistiques en voyant sa taille augmenter.
