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.

Trustees of the British Museum/PA 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...