They even laid the foundation for the creation of England. There we go, the history of the Anglo-Saxons in a matter of minutes, from invaders to settlers, to makers. How enjoyable was that?

Analyzing DNA from hundreds of Anglo-Saxon-era bones in England and in northwest Europe, a paper in the journal Nature has concluded that as much as 76 percent of ancestry in eastern medieval ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early ...

a professor of Anglo-Saxon history at Cambridge University. “They engaged in extortion on a massive scale, using the threat of violence to extract vast quantities of silver from England and some ...

Since its discovery in 1939, archaeologists have pointed to Sweden as the source of Sutton Hoo's haul. A Danish stamp says ...

Warfare formed England. The consolidation of land gained ... only as piggy banks," says Kevin Leahy, an authority on Anglo-Saxon history who was entrusted with the task of cataloging the ...

Legs Cross is located next to the Roman road of Dere Street, now known as the B6275, between Bolam and Heighington. The cross is thought to date back to AD 850 and is believed to have marked the ...

An archaeologist’s find in Denmark could shake up history with regards to one of Britain’s most iconic Anglo-Saxon treasures, ...