Sutton Hoo burials may have been British soldiers who fought in Byzantine army - For years, it was believed that royals could have been buried at the famous site - but a leading academic has another t

Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the identity of the remains found at a famous burial site near Suffolk, England. She has published a paper in the journal English Historical Review outlining her ideas.

New research suggests Sutton Hoo burial mounds in Suffolk may have contained Byzantine soldiers rather than Anglo-Saxon royalty, a groundbreaking study by an Oxford University academic has revealed. Dr Helen Gittos,