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

Well-Preserved Runic-Inscribed Sword Unearthed from a Cemetery, Sheds New Light on Funerary Practices An astonishing find of ...

When a roughly 1,500-year-old sword is described as still being in the “top echelons of swords,” you know that’s a pretty ...

Sutton Hoo, located near the North Sea in Suffolk, was first uncovered in the late 1930s. Named after Old English words ...

"I've never seen one that's so beautifully preserved." Archaeologists excavating a medieval cemetery near Canterbury, England ...

Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the ...

It was found in a cemetery for high-social-status individuals that's being kept secret from the public due to the value.

An incredible Anglo-Saxon sword unearthed in a field in Kent has been revealed for the first time on BBC programme Digging for Britain. Described as 'one of the most extraordinary objects' ever ...

The lead archaeologist at the grave site told Newsweek that the sword was an "elite object that marked its owner out as special." ...

Dating to the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., the burials held a trove of grave goods—but the team was particularly impressed ...

Professor Peter Heather, historian at King's College London, told BBC the research was "revolutionary," highlighting its potential to clarify the nature of relations between new arrivals and native ...

"There are now three hoards from this period (1042 to 1044) known across England, which strengthens the idea that the first years of Edward's reign were not calm." Related: Anglo-Saxons ...