Almost 300 years after the Romans left, scholars like Bede wrote about the Angles and the Saxons and their migrations to the British Isles. Scholars of many disciplines, including archaeology, history ...

THE Archaeogenetics Research Group at the University of Huddersfield has played a key role in the largest genetic study to date of Early Medieval Europe. The study has been conducted by an ...

NEW YORK — Genetic samples collected from across the United Kingdom are shedding light on the ancient past, including Viking invasions and a mystery about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons, researchers ...

In the Early Middle Ages, groups of people from mainland Europe migrated to the British Isles and dramatically reshaped society in their new homelands. The history of those people — the Anglo-Saxons — ...

A research centre had mapped out Britain's genetic make-up and, in the process, revealed some interesting facts about the historical origins of its citizens. In particular, the map created by the ...

How England became Anglo-Saxon The genetic make-up of people in south and east England changed radically between the Iron Age and the early medieval period, suggesting that there was a huge influx of ...