Schoolteachers Mercie Lacks and Barbara Wagstaff captured the snapshots in August 1939 Livia Gershon Daily Correspondent The photographs show the "fossil" imprint of a wooden ship that rotted away ...

Over decades, archaeologists have gradually uncovered fragments of an ornate Byzantine-era bucket on the grounds of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, the U.K. The latest piece to turn up, however, is radically ...

A copper bucket found at Sutton Hoo in England decades ago is much more than a pretty artifact: A new micro-excavation of the sixth-century container reveals it held the cremated remains of an elite ...

A 1,500-year-old bucket discovered in England has been identified as an ancient cremation burial vessel, experts said. The 6th-century bucket was found at Sutton Hoo, an archaeological site near ...

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What it is: A decorated Anglo-Saxon metal helmet with a faceplate Where it is from: Woodbridge, Suffolk, England When it was made: Circa A.D. 600 to 625 Related: Roman scutum: An 1,800-year-old shield ...

AS YOU WALK around the British Museum’s Sutton Hoo collection in the refurbished Room 41, one name crops up over and over again. Next to these astonishing artefacts is “Donated by Mrs Edith M Pretty, ...

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The famous Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo helmet from about 625 CE, part of the British Museum collection. Photo: Elissa Blake/University of Sydney Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Woodbridge, England — In a far-flung corner of southeast England, in a boatshed on the River Debden, a former U.S. Navy submariner whose career saw him serve on some of the most advanced ...