The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

“The ancestry that we thought would come in [with] Anglo-Saxons ... the timeline back by hundreds of years. From the windswept coasts of Scandinavia to the bustling towns of Roman Britain ...

On both the real and Anglo-Saxon imitation solidi, the standard clearly displays a cross, and the figure holds a miniature Nike, a traditional Roman symbol of victory. For artifacts in the U.K. to ...

Gildas, a British monk, wrote 'The Ruin of Britain', the only near-contemporary source for the collapse of Roman Britain and the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. Gildas saw these events as God's ...