Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early medieval Anglo-Saxon history. But the reexamination isn’t due to anything new ...

Warfare between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons continued for the next few decades. The latter continued to grow more ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...

Among the extraordinary artifacts found in the Sutton Hoo burials is an Anglo-Saxon iron helmet with tinned bronze and gilt decoration dating to the early seventh century A.D. This intricately ...

Free play sessions will be held at one of the country's most famous Anglo-Saxon archaeological ... who ruled in the 7th ...

The Anglo-Saxon helmet, dated to the 7th century, is one of the UK’s most iconic archaeological finds and often called the “British Tutankhamen”. Previous studies suggested it came from ...

In Anglo-Saxon times there were few schools in England and only a handful of people went to them. Schools were established in the 6th or 7th century. They were attached to churches and monasteries ...

An ancient stamp unearthed by a metal detectorist suggests the Sutton Hoo was actually made in Denmark, and not Sweden as ...