**Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts**

"_These finds put the Anglo-Saxon princes and their followers centre-stage in one of the last great wars of late antiquity. It takes them out of insular England into the plains of Syria and Iraq in a world of conflict and competition between the Byzantines and the Sasanians and gave those Anglo-Saxons literally a taste for something much more global than they probably could have imagined._"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/04/anglo-saxons-may-have-fought-in-northern-syrian-wars-say-experts

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