The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. The famous ...

In the fifth and sixth centuries, Anglo-Saxons were pagan, but the Roman Empire had converted to Christianity in A.D. 380 under the emperor Theodosius I. His son, Honorius, ruled as a Christian ...

The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. The Anglo-Saxons loved to meet and tell thrilling stories. Often these were accompanied by music played ...

But a leading Anglo-Saxon expert has now suggested it might have been the grave of British soldiers who fought for the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century AD. The site was unearthed in the late ...

The burial sites have been dated to approximately 575 AD, a time when the Roman Empire had already withdrawn ... Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, ...