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.

but historians have long claimed Sutton Hoo was the cemetery for the royal dynasty of East Anglia, the Wuffingas. It's been said a king or great warrior of East Anglia was laid to rest surrounded ...

Since then, several of the other 18 tumuli at Sutton Hoo have yielded further discoveries. In the 1990s, a warrior noble in full armor was found buried alongside his horse. Since one-third of the ...

the warrior’s hair as well as an almond-shaped harness fitting on the horse’s head, they say. On the contrary, a wild boar or bird of prey on the Swedish motif is not seen on the Sutton Hoo ...

Image caption, The copper-alloy stamp depicts a a warrior on horseback. Sutton Hoo is thought to be the burial site of King Raedwald, an East Anglian ruler who died in 624AD. First excavated in ...

and in Suffolk with the great Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo. The famous helmet found there leaves no doubt that it was the grave of a warrior chief. If pursuing this week's themes of war ...

Sixteen detectors were placed at Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge, over the past two summers by a local environmental group working with the University of Suffolk. The common pipistrelle was the most ...

the warrior’s hair as well as an almond-shaped harness fitting on the horse’s head, they say. On the contrary, a wild boar or bird of prey on the Swedish motif is not seen on the Sutton Hoo helmet or ...