The tomb of an Anglo-Saxon prince has revealed treasures such as a decorated lyre, painted woodwork and a gold belt buckle. The treasure-laden tomb is the first known Christian burial of an Anglo ...

Other finds include a 1,400-year-old painted box, which is described as the only surviving example of early Anglo-Saxon painted woodwork, and the remains of a long-lost lyre, an ancient musical ...

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Precious artifacts unearthed in 2003 at an Anglo-Saxon burial site dating to the 6th century go on display at Southend’s Central Museum in the UK on Saturday.

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.

Anglo-Saxon was a way to distinguish genteel old-money types, such as nativist Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, from members of inferior races who had names such as, well, McCarthy.

But they are related. With the “Anglo Saxon traditions” controversy drawing more attention, we are also seeing versions of Carlson’s viewpoint edging into the realm of Republican respectability.

S ay the term “Anglo-Saxon” to most people, and they’re likely to picture the Smashing Saxons from Horrible Historiesor the protagonists of Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom. In the ...

The tomb of an Anglo-Saxon prince has revealed treasures such as a decorated lyre, painted woodwork and a gold belt buckle. The treasure-laden tomb is the first known Christian burial of an ...

Based on a few metal fittings and a chemical analysis of the soil stains left by rotting wood, archaeologists have reconstructed a lyre buried with the Anglo-Saxon aristocrat. The instrument was ...