The Art of Armour | Secrets of the Exhibit EP2
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The Art of Armour | Secrets of the Exhibit EP2

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 13, 20261 hr
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People have always had a kind of a bloodlust for anything where people might lose their lives. The study of armour is one of the great forms of art and technology in the history of world cultures.

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They like to go wailing at their enemies with very big swords. of whack to your skull and it's all over. If you develop a kind of armor that's going to provide better protection, somebody's going to come up with a better

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type of sense of weapon to be used against it. This piece of chain mail is more than 2,000 years old. It would take a skilled craftsman as much as one year to construct one. Despite being very heavy, as much as 30 pounds, this armor was absolutely essential to a warrior.

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