Crossroads Roundup: Anglo-Saxon Burials, Ancient Egyptian Tombs, and Your Brain on Art

Our favorite stories on art, archaeology, folklore, and more from this past week.

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“Professor Alice Roberts with osteologists Jacqueline McKinley and Ceri Boston from Wessex Archaeology in the Digging for Britain tent with two Anglo-Saxon burials found during excavations for Viking Link.” © Wessex Archaeology

This week’s Roundup is packed with news from the ancient and medieval worlds—archaeological news, that is.

A 6th-7th century Anglo-Saxon burial site found in Lincolnshire offers precious insight into early Anglo-Saxon communities in Britain.

The first story involves an Anglo-Saxon burial found in Lincolnshire (eastern England), in which archaeologists uncovered the graves of over 20 people and hundreds of grave goods, including knives, jewelry (pictured below), pottery, and more. The discovery comes during a very exciting time for British archaeology. In 2020, construction began for the UK National Grid’s Viking Link, the world’s longest land and subsea interconnector that will share electricity with Denmark. Since the digging began, 50 archaeological sites have been found.