The team building the replica of a famous Anglo-Saxon burial ship have told of their aspirations to eventually sail it down ...

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 Sutton Hoo ship burial dates to between around AD 610 and AD 635, when the site belonged to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia. In AD 575, the Byzantine army 'urgently' needed more ...

For decades, it was thought those interred at the Anglo-Saxon burial mounds of Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, were lavish Kings buried with their riches. But a leading Anglo-Saxon expert has now suggested ...

She has published a paper in the journal English Historical Review outlining her ideas. Called Sutton Hoo, the burial site was discovered almost a century ago, and has since that time become the ...

Archaeologists uncovered an Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo thought to be related to King Raedwald in 1939 [Trustees of the British Museum/PA] But Dr Gittos suggests Byzantine Army soldiers ...

Compelling new research from the University of Oxford argues that early medieval soldiers were recruited from Britain into ...

Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's belt ...

The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company is aiming to complete the rebuild of the Anglo Saxon ship by next year [Stuart Howells/BBC] ...