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

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 ...

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ENGLAND—The Northampton Chronicle & Echo reports that an Anglo-Saxon settlement and cemetery, and Bronze Age barrows and burials, were discovered in England’s East Midlands during an ...

THIS book is suggestive, in the sense that while it raises many interesting problems, the material at present available does not admit their complete solution. Dealing with a period of about 200 years ...

Historian Chabal (France) offers an enthralling intellectual biography of “communist polymath” and historian Eric Hobsbawm. Born in 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, to English-Jewish Continue reading » The ...

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 ...

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously depicts William the Conqueror's victory over the so-called Anglo-Saxons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons People in the United States and Great Britain ...