“The Sutton Hoo helmet is iconic worldwide. It is a national treasure for the British on a par with the chariot of the sun for Danes,” said Peter Pentz, curator at the National Museum of Denmark.

The helmet was pieced together in 1939 from fragments found at the Sutton Hoo burial site in the east of England and is now an icon of Anglo-Saxon culture. | Credit: Trustees of the British Museum ...

Markings on the stamp are identical to those on the Sutton Hoo helmet. The Sutton Hoo Helmet on view at the British Museum in London, England, 2014. Photo: Oli Scarff / Getty Images.

The Bayeux Tapestry is set to return to England for the first time in 900 years, The Telegraph can reveal. A loan deal for the depiction of the 1066 Norman Conquest is expected to be announced during ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK more than 900 years after its creation, the Department for Culture, Media and ...

The British Museum, renowned for its vast and diverse collection of over eight million artifacts, continues to draw global attention—not just for its treasures but for their origins. Here’s a ...

The list took in the Rosetta Stone, the Sutton Hoo helmet from Anglo-Saxon Britain, and a Maya maize god statue dating to 3500 B.C., and each object was accompanied by a 14-minute story about its ...

The excavation was filmed for “ Time Team,” a British television show that broadcasts archaeological digs. The team’s dig was the most intensive excavation at Sutton Hoo since the 2000s.