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 ... and the famous Sutton Hoo helmet. The man buried in a ship ...

The burial mound of Sutton Hoo. Credit: Neil Theasby / Wikimedia Commons The most recent study, published in the English Historical Review, proposes a groundbreaking hypothesis: some Anglo-Saxons may ...

The Sutton Hoo burial mounds did not contain items from ... The burials are a collection of Anglo-Saxon artefacts found in a ship burial in Sutton. It was discovered in 1939 and originally thought ...

More information: Helen Gittos, Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, The English Historical Review (2025). DOI: 10.1093/ehr/ceae213 ...

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 ...

has released a new research paper into the Anglo Saxon wonder near Woodbridge in Suffolk. She has put forward a theory that those buried at Sutton Hoo could have been recruited by the Byzantine ...

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 ...