Archaeologists from the U.K.’s University of Reading have discovered the site of an ancient Anglo-Saxon monastery that was ruled by a royal abbess, Queen Cynethryth. Cynethryth is believed to have ...

Discover the fascinating stories of the first Anglo-Saxon Queens of England before the Norman conquest. These queens, ...

A sixth-century sword bearing carved runes has been recovered from an Anglo-Saxon burial ground in Kent, England, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study inscribed weaponry from the early ...

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, ...

Saxons. Audio drama telling the story of 1066 - the year when England had three different kings. BBC School Radio. BBC Teach.

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 ...

A fragment of 1,500-year-old cloth is still attached to a metal brooch found at the site. Courtesy of the Museum of London Archaeology Last year, two companies developing land near the small 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 ...

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