When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The tomb of an Anglo-Saxon prince has revealed treasures such as a decorated lyre, painted ...

An Anglo-Saxon Lyre, found as part of the Sutton Hoo medieval ship burial, has a cousin more than 2,400 miles away in Kazakhstan, according to archaeologists. A re-analysis of finds from Soviet-era ...

Archaeologists in the U.K. have revealed new details of the earliest Christian royal burial ever found in Britain, which they compared to the famous King Tutankhamun's tomb. In 2003, road workers in ...

A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan, but after ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Though almost all of the Anglo-Saxon prince's body had long since decayed, archaeologists believe ...

Excited archeologists on Thursday hailed an ancient burial site found on the side of a road near a pub and a budget supermarket as Britain's answer to the tomb of Egypt's King Tutankhamun. The small ...

It was hailed as one of the most exciting archaeological finds in Britain in decades: an undisturbed Anglo-Saxon burial chamber chanced upon during a road widening project near Prittlewell, in Essex.