On the upper floor of the British Museum, in a gallery containing early medieval artifacts, most visitors will congregate around the swords, helmets, drinking horns and lyres. To a few, however, ...

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A fragment of 1,500-year-old cloth is still attached to a metal brooch found at the site. Courtesy of the Museum of London Archaeology Last year, two companies developing land near the small village ...

Archaeologists in Rendlesham, Suffolk, have uncovered a seventh-century settlement that may have been home to the craftspeople who made the treasures of nearby Sutton Hoo, widely considered the ...

Opulent personal goods including jewelry, handbags, and weapons have been recently found in 20 ancient graves, dating back to the fifth and sixth century in England. The cemetery was unearthed ...