The Byzantine Empire faced numerous challenges, forcing many Greeks to employ genius tactics to defend the Empire.

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.

Archaeologists uncovered an Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo thought to be related to King Raedwald in 1939 But Dr Gittos suggests Byzantine Army soldiers - recruited from the region in AD575 ...

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 famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Prior research has shown that soldiers in Britain were recruited by the Byzantine army, which was busy fighting the Sasanians in what is now Iran. Gittos has been studying artifacts found at the ...

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 ...

A Byzantine-era monastery, from the 5th-6th centuries CE, has been uncovered near the Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday. The monastery features a ...

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 ...