The Creature from the Geek Lagoon

Archaeologists have made "a once-in-a-lifetime discovery" in the town of Prittlewell, some 35 miles east of London: an almost intact 1,400-year-old Anglo Saxon royal burial chamber.

It contains more than 60 objects, from gold crosses to glass jars and copper-alloy bowls to drinking vessels, still hanging on hooks where they had been originally placed. "This will open new windows on our understanding of the Dark Ages," senior archaeologist Ian Blair said. "You can draw arrows all over Europe and the near East tracing the origins of the grave goods."

What they can't tell is whose grave it is: There is no body. The suspicion is that it simply has decomposed in the acidic soil that leeched into the chamber. Be that as it may, the scientists have two guesses as to who was buried there. Gold foil crosses on the body indicate conversion to Christianity, suggesting either Saebert, who converted in 604 and died in 616, or Sigeberht II who converted in 653.