Barbara Wagstaff, left, and Mercie Lack, right, photographed the excavation site near Woodbridge on the eve of World War Two Photographs and newspaper cuttings from the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavations and metal-detecting work at the site of a famous ship burial in Suffolk, England, have revealed missing pieces that ...

The excavations at Sutton Hoo, the site of Dark Age-era Anglo-Saxon burial mounds located in Suffolk, East Anglia, are considered England's greatest archeological find of the 20th century. Mere months ...

In 1939, a quiet countryside dig in England turned into a history-shaking discovery that blew apart the myth of the so-called “Dark Ages.” What amateur archaeologist Basil Brown uncovered beneath a ...

In the late 1930s, Edith Pretty enlisted amateur archaeologist Basil Brown to excavate some peculiar mounds on her property in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, UK. What he uncovered was the fossilized frame of an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simon Stone’s The Dig, now on Netflix, starring Carrey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes, began its source material excavation in 2006.

View post: The New 'Scary Movie' Is Now Streaming — Here's Where to Watch It Archaeologists made a shocking discovery in a sixth-century copper bucket found several decades ago at the famous English ...

In the months between May and September 1939, as Britain edged closer to the growing threat of war with Germany, the residents of Sussex, in the Southeast of England were captivated by the events of ...

Archaeologists from Lancaster University have recovered a sixth-century sword from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury, Kent, and the weapon’s exceptional preservation and burial context place it ...

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(CNN) — Excavations and metal-detecting work at the site of a famous ship burial in Suffolk, England, have revealed missing pieces that could help archaeologists better understand an intriguing but ...