Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early medieval Anglo-Saxon history. But the reexamination isn’t due to anything new ...

Peter Pentz, a curator at the National Museum of Denmark, says the discovery raises the possibility the Sutton Hoo helmet may in fact have originated in the country. The archaeologist told the BBC ...

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 ...

that many of the Sutton Hoo findings and other Anglo-Saxon artifacts were better understood, Gittos said. Unlike the Sutton Hoo graves, the Prittlewell grave had never been looted by grave robbers ...

Pupils conclude their archaeological investigation of the Sutton Hoo site and consider what it tells us about the Anglo-Saxons. We return to the summer of 1939 and the discovery of the Anglo-Saxon ...

open image in gallery Sutton Hoo helmet (The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license)) “The Sutton Hoo helmet is iconic worldwide. It is a national treasure for the British on a ...

Peter Pentz, a curator at the National Museum of Denmark, sees many similarites between the stamp and the Sutton Hoo helmet. John Fhær Engedal Nissen / The National Museum of Denmark Two years ...