The British Museum has been partially closed to visitors after a former employee allegedly shut down some of its IT network. The museum alleged that the contractor entered the building and accessed ...

The helmet was speculated to reflect the power of an Anglo-Saxon king, despite its rusted and fragmented nature. The Sutton Hoo helmet was displayed at the British Museum in London and was ...

Malcolm Weale, a detectorist who found the item displays an early medieval silver penny of Guthrum of East Anglia, the first ...

A museum is fighting to avoid a “tragic loss” and keep a rare Anglo-Saxon treasure in the region ... found in West Sussex was ...

When Malcolm Weale saw the tiny, dirt-covered object he’d unearthed in an English field, he knew it was something special.

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ... Photograph by British Museum/Scala, Florence The collection ...

The British Museum had to close some of its doors to visitors Friday, after a former employee allegedly succeeded in shutting down elements of its IT system. The BBC reports that the museum’s ...

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In Roman Britain many people had been Christians. But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians, they were pagans. Anglo-Saxons believed in lucky charms. They thought that rhymes, potions, stones ...

"He has been bailed pending further enquiries." The British Museum - which holds items including the Rosetta Stone, the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo and the contested Parthenon Sculptures ...

The British Museum had to close some of its doors ... and the remnants of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial from Sutton Hoo. The BBC adds that it was last year named the UK’s top visitor attraction ...

“I was shaking,” Weale said at the British Museum ... reveals the sophistication of Anglo-Saxon craftsmanship, and is surprisingly global. Archaeologist Helen Geake, who serves as a ...