A Byzantine gold coin that was recently discovered in the mountains of southern Norway has historians perplexed over how it got there.

Other early English graves held artifacts that indicated contact with the Byzantines centuries before some Anglo-Saxons served as bodyguards in the Byzantine Varangian Guard. "Those who returned ...

Artifacts from other early English graves also suggest such contacts with the Byzantines, she said, many centuries before some Anglo-Saxons fought as bodyguards in the Byzantine Varangian Guard.