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.

On display at the British Museum in London, the Sutton Hoo helmet is an iconic relic of early British history. Although rusted and fragmentary, the helmet reflects the power of its owner ...

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 ...

Take a look below at these Anglo-Saxon treasures. Pieces of this helmet were found at Sutton Hoo. They have been placed together and reconstructed in this photo. There are boars' heads on the ...

The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company (SHSC) is reconstructing the famous ship unearthed at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, in 1939. It had been working at The Longshed in Woodbridge, but recently announced it would ...

From March, the National Trust is opening up its Sutton Hoo site, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, for children aged between two and four. Sutton Hoo is famous for the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon burial ...

Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge and Melton, will be closed tomorrow (Thursday, February 13) ahead of a planned power cut in the area. In a social media post, the Anglo-Saxon burial site confirmed it ...

Pupils conclude their archaeological investigation of the Sutton Hoo site and consider what it tells us about the Anglo-Saxons. We return to the summer of 1939 and the discovery of the Anglo-Saxon ...

From March, the National Trust is opening up its Sutton Hoo site, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, for children aged between two and four. Sutton Hoo is famous for the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon ...