The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. The famous ...

Sutton Hoo burials may have been British soldiers who fought in Byzantine army - For years, it was believed that royals could have been buried at the famous site - but a leading academic has another t ...

Credit: Neil Theasby / Wikimedia Commons The most recent study, published in the English Historical Review, proposes a groundbreaking hypothesis: some Anglo-Saxons may have served as elite soldiers in ...

Sutton Hoo - first excavated by self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown in 1939 - is widely considered to be England's Valley ...

Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the identity of the remains found at a famous burial site near Suffolk, England.

Compelling new research from the University of Oxford argues that early medieval soldiers were recruited from Britain into ...

New research by Oxford University has suggested Anglo-Saxons were more connected to other parts of the world than previously thought.

A Byzantine military manual referred to Britons as being good fighters in woodland, and there is evidence that then-Emperor Justinian was paying subsidies in Britain . So there is a chance ...

Recent research suggests that some of the tombs at Sutton Hoo, one of England’s most renowned archaeological sites, may belong to warriors who served in the Byzantine army. Historian Helen Gittos of ...

A Byzantine military manual referred to Britons as being good fighters in woodland, and there is evidence that then-Emperor Justinian was paying subsidies in Britain . So there is a chance ...

She has put forward a theory that those buried at Sutton Hoo could have been recruited by the Byzantine Army in the eastern Mediterranean in 575 AD, based on items found during excavations.