You hear the term everywhere these days in politics, pop music, business, even race relations. Anglo-Saxon. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, we now know a bit more about who the ...

NORTHAMPTON, England - A rare discovery of 81 Anglo-Saxon coffins made from the hollowed-out trunks of oak trees may provide new insights into how people lived in the early days of Christianity in ...

Archaeologists in England have identified a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house, which, they say, may once have been the home of a king who became a saint. Thought to date from the early 9th century, ...

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 ...

GOOD DAY FOR: Gold diggers, after an amateur treasure hunter in England with a metal detector unearted the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure trove ever discovered. The treasure—which includes 11 pounds of ...

When an Anglo-Saxon warrior king died 1,400 years ago in East Anglia in the United Kingdom, he was placed inside a ship and surrounded by treasures. The 90-foot-long (27.4-meter-long) wooden ship, ...

SAN DIEGO — Britons might not be Anglo-Saxons, a genetic analysis of five ancient skeletons hints. When archaeological digs revealed ancient graves on the grounds of the Wellcome Trust Sanger ...

A discovery by a metal detectorist on club outing proved to be a significant burial with the remains of an imposing warlord, along with well-preserved weapons and items. Archaeologists have uncovered ...

An ancient Anglo-Saxon cemetery with more than 80 rare wooden coffins containing skeletons has been unearthed in England. Earlier this year, archaeologists were investigating the ground around a river ...

The Normans, here, are a symbol of unjust power and authority, dressed in chainmail and tunics instead of Hublot watches and ...