Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved elite sword from a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury ...

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

A sixth-century sword described as "astonishing" has been discovered at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural England. Lead archaeologist Duncan Sayer of the University of Central Lancashire, told The ...

CANTERBURY, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern England. The weapon features a gild and silver ...

Can the sword cut through tatami mats, designed to simulate human flesh and bone? He then has a crash course in shooting a longbow - the ranged weapon that required years of practice, and became part ...

The Sutton Hoo sword, a sixth- or seventh-century, two-and-a-half-foot Anglo-Saxon blade excavated in Suffolk in 1939, was a remarkable find: over 1,400 years old and discovered in one rusty piece.

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Excavators recently unearthed an Anglo-Saxon “princely” grave — containing two men, a horse and grave goods — during the construction of a nuclear power station in England. The discovery was made at ...

The Anglo-Saxons — they were just swept away.” That may have been accurate, but historians point out that unlike most conquerors who absorb an overtaken culture within two centuries, the Norman ...