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A "princely" grave of a horse buried alongside two people has been discovered by archaeologists working on one of Britain's biggest digs. The excavation is being carried out by Oxford Cotswold ...

The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century, a new study finds. The ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a key component of a mysterious artifact at Sutton Hoo, a National Trust site in Suffolk, England, famous for the seventh century Anglo-Saxon “ghost ship” burial ...

The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries AD. While acidic sandy soils have dissolved the bones, the excavators have ...

The face of Anglo-Saxon England may have Danish origins. Ever since the Sutton Hoo ship burial and its wealth of artifacts were discovered in the late 1930s, the archaeological consensus has pointed ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a key component of a mysterious artifact at Sutton Hoo, a National Trust site in Suffolk, England, famous for the seventh century Anglo-Saxon “ghost ship” burial ...

Archaeologists unearthed a rare Anglo-Saxon "princely" burial near Sizewell C, featuring a harnessed horse and two ...

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