Secrets of Saxon blood and gold cast light on a Dark Age. MORE than a thousand years ago, someone hastily buried sacks full of treasure. Now it’s revealing Dark Age secrets.

Briton finds 7th-century treasure Discovery of Anglo-Saxon gold, silver stash thrills archaeologists September 25, 2009 by RAPHAEL G. SATTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

Beowulf's helmet in the poem is described as made of "beaten gold" and "adorned with boar shapes." MORE ASTONISHING ARTIFACTS — Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old geometry mistake ...