A warlord's sword is among many Saxon items on display for the first time in a new exhibition.

A fresh re-reading of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests that King Harold Godwinson didn’t race south by land after Stamford ...

New research challenges the long-standing account of King Harold II Godwinson’s dash south before the Battle of Hastings. It recasts the English monarch not as an exhausted commander driving his ...

The tale of King Harold, who lost England to William the Conqueror, still looms large in British popular culture. But the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 400s, the Western Roman Empire abandoned Britain to its own devices. Twin brothers Hengist and Horsa saw an opportunity to ...

Archaeologists in England have identified a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house, which, they say, may once have been the home of a king who became a saint. Thought to date from the early 9th century, ...

The Bromeswell bucket is currently on display at Sutton Hoo's High Hall exhibition in Suffolk, England. - David Brunetti/National Trust Images Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

Over the past month, our understanding of England’s distant past has been upended—not by trained archaeologists, but by two hobbyists with simple metal detectors. While prospecting in village ...

You hear the term everywhere these days in politics, pop music, business, even race relations. Anglo-Saxon. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, we now know a bit more about who the ...

NORTHAMPTON, England - A rare discovery of 81 Anglo-Saxon coffins made from the hollowed-out trunks of oak trees may provide new insights into how people lived in the early days of Christianity in ...