Archaeologists have uncovered a key component of a mysterious artifact at Sutton Hoo, a National Trust site in Suffolk, England, famous for the seventh century Anglo-Saxon “ghost ship” burial ...

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 ...

It’s official. The Anglo-Saxons are getting canceled. The move comes more than 1,000 years too late for the previously ascendant Romano-British who couldn’t resist these Germanic peoples who showed up ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian imagery, but they didn't do a very good job. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Unlike most Anglo-Saxon gold hoards, which are typically recovered from burial contexts alongside human remains and other grave goods, these objects were found scattered across a slope with no ...

Long before it became the top exporter of brooding BBC actors or steamed puddings, the United Kingdom was simply a cold, rocky island off the coast of Europe. It wasn’t until the arrival of ...

The Smithsonian Should Sue but Won’t, the Bayeux Tapestry Shouldn’t Travel but Will Star Trek’s Forgotten Encounter with NR It doesn’t require a gauzily romantic view of the Anglo-Saxons to conclude ...

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