Analyzing DNA from hundreds of Anglo-Saxon-era bones in England and in northwest Europe, a paper in the journal Nature has concluded that as much as 76 percent of ancestry in eastern medieval ...

They even laid the foundation for the creation of England. There we go, the history of the Anglo-Saxons in a matter of minutes, from invaders to settlers, to makers. How enjoyable was that?

A series of tantalising mysteries associated with the “most haunted” village in England has been solved by a university ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

Archaeologists from Newcastle University and the University of Exeter confirmed the location of the lost residence of Harold ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...

England was one of the wealthiest kingdoms in ... The earl was the king's ‘right hand man’ in a shire. The position was not hereditary, but it became usual in the 10th century to choose ...