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 ...

The Byzantines and the Venetians were masters of commerce, and that led to a devastating trade war between the two powers.

Life in Greece and in the Byzantine Empire as a whole is a fascinating chapter of human history that not many pay attention ...

a great king of East Anglia who died in AD624. But Dr Gittos suggests Byzantine Army soldiers - recruited from the region in AD575 to fight in a war - may also have been buried there based on the ...

New research suggests Sutton Hoo burial mounds in Suffolk may have contained Byzantine soldiers rather than Anglo-Saxon royalty, a groundbreaking study by an Oxford University academic has revealed.

But a leading Anglo-Saxon expert has now suggested it might have been the grave of British soldiers who fought for the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century AD. The site was unearthed in the late ...

But a leading Anglo-Saxon expert has now suggested it might have been the grave of British soldiers who fought for the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century AD. The site was unearthed in the late ...

Prior research has shown that soldiers in Britain were recruited by the Byzantine army, which was busy fighting the Sasanians in what is now Iran. Gittos has been studying artifacts found at the ...

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