A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo-Saxons?" New ...

A sixth-century Anglo-Saxon sword bearing runic inscriptions has been recovered from a grave in Kent, England, raising sharp ...

Anglo-Saxon literary culture, flourishing between the fifth and eleventh centuries in what is now England, encompasses a rich corpus of poetry, prose and vernacular translations that reflect the ...

The ancestry of early Anglo-Saxons, a subject of some debate, included immigrants from continental Europe as well as people indigenous to Great Britain, according to a study published June 23, 2021 in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

It’s official. The Anglo-Saxons are getting canceled. The move comes more than 1,000 years too late for the previously ascendant Romano-British who couldn’t resist these Germanic peoples who showed up ...

Archaeologists have provided important new evidence to answer the question 'who exactly were the Anglo-Saxons?' New findings based on studying skeletal remains clearly indicates the Anglo-Saxons were ...

The famous Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo helmet from about 625 CE, part of the British Museum collection.Photo: Elissa Blake/University of Sydney. Credit: Elissa Blake/University of Sydney The famous ...