Beneath medieval Bamburgh Castle on England’s northeast coast lie the remains of a royal Anglo-Saxon fortress that was once the seat of the kings of Northumbria. (Colin Carter Photography/Getty Images ...
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Anglo-Saxon silver coins were buried as a Viking army drove a king overseas
A collection of 63 Anglo-Saxon silver coins, buried in haste more than a thousand years ago in what is now Worcestershire, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Why Seaxnēat was so feared that Christian missionaries forced Saxons to renounce him
Æscwine of Essex is remembered as the first ruler of the East Saxons and the ancestor of the dynasty that would later hold ...
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 ...
Scholars say Aethelstan was likely the first king of England. But the story of his rise to power is complex. A portrait of Aethelstan, who was King of England from 924 until 939 A.D, in a book ...
Lawrence Nees has been teaching University of Delaware students for 40 years, and lecturing around the world about art history for even longer than that, but he’s about to deliver what he calls ...
The Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service conducted a large-scale survey of the fields at Rendlesham, a major settlement near Sutton Hoo, with the help of volunteer metal detectorists in order ...
Contrary to popular belief, the ruling classes gorged on meat only on rare occasions, according to an analysis of more than 2,000 skeletons buried during medieval times. By Maria Cramer Anglo-Saxon ...
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 ...
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