Discovered in 1939, the Sutton Hoo ship burial revealed one of the greatest archaeological finds in British history. Beneath ...

A rare sixth-century sword has been uncovered in an Anglo-Saxon burial site near Canterbury, England. This remarkable find offers new insights into early medieval life and could reshape our ...

A sixth-century Byzantine bucket, painstakingly reconstructed from fragments discovered at the Sutton Hoo archaeological site, likely held the cremated remains of an “important person”, according to ...

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Woodbridge, England — In a far-flung corner of southeast England, in a boatshed on the River Debden, a former U.S. Navy submariner whose career saw him serve on some of the most advanced ...

The Sutton Hoo sword, a sixth- or seventh-century, two-and-a-half-foot Anglo-Saxon blade excavated in Suffolk in 1939, was a remarkable find: over 1,400 years old and discovered in one rusty piece.

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