Narrator: Excuse me. Yes, you! Would you like to learn about the Anglo-Saxons? Great! Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066, and they originally ...

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

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

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 ...

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A nonprofit that oversees museums commemorating William Shakespeare's life is purportedly working to "decolonize" his legacy ...

Archaeologists from Newcastle University and the University of Exeter confirmed the location of the lost residence of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, in Bosham, West Sussex.

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

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...

These necklaces were worn by women who lived in Ipswich around 1500 years ago.These necklaces are some of the very personal items buried with women living in the Hadleigh Road area of Ipswich ...