A collection of 63 Anglo-Saxon silver coins, buried in haste more than a thousand years ago in what is now Worcestershire, ...

A sixth-century sword bearing carved runes has been recovered from an Anglo-Saxon burial ground in Kent, England, giving ...

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Jonathan Jones on great medieval art apart from the Bayeux tapestry ...

A massive Anglo-Saxon burial site has been uncovered in Northamptonshire in the U.K. Nearby, archaeologists also discovered a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age burial site. The archaeologists uncovered a ...

The five centuries between the end of Roman rule and the Norman Conquest were, for a long time, seen as a culturally desolate era in British history. Whereas classical civilisation was associated with ...

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 ...

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, ...

An assembly framework and video to learn about the events that led to the Battle of Hastings, and its impact on Britain.

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 ...

The Vikings invaded England in the 9th and 10th centuries. They plundered, raped and burned towns to the ground. Or at least, this is the story we know from school and popular culture. Nevertheless, ...