Posted on 01/14/2025 11:38:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The famous Sutton Hoo burial site may have also included graves of soldiers recruited by a foreign army, new research has revealed.
Helen Gittos, 50, an associate professor of early medieval history at the University of Oxford, has released a new research paper into the Anglo Saxon wonder near Woodbridge in Suffolk.
She has put forward a theory that those buried at Sutton Hoo could have been recruited by the Byzantine Army in the eastern Mediterranean in 575 AD, based on items found during excavations...
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Gittos examined distribution maps of copper items that travelled from the eastern Mediterranean region to eastern Britain around 600 AD.
She wondered why this could have happened and started her research.
Similar Byzantine items from the eastern Mediterranean had previously been been uncovered at Sutton Hoo in 1986, with more found in 2012.
Traditionally it has been thought these items had been gifted to those buried at the site, including royal kings of the region...
But Dr Gittos suggests Byzantine Army soldiers - recruited from the region in AD575 to fight in a war - may also have been buried there based on the items excavated.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
BTTT
Who were the Byzantines fighting in 579 AD?
Russia and Ukraine.
Sassanids.
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