Anglo Saxon England was also home to one of the great intellectuals of the Middle Ages - the monk known as the Venerable Bede. Bede, born in 672, was a monk in Jarrow, in south Tyneside.

What was life in the fens like in the period known as the dark ages? ... Casting light on the dark ages—Anglo-Saxon fenland is re-imagined. by University of Cambridge.

While some have argued that a single term like “Anglo-Saxon” is inaccurate as the Dark Ages were a period of population change, including the Viking invasions, others maintain that the term ...

Among those queuing to see the artefacts was Allison Buckley, 47, from Stafford. "It's almost as exciting as queuing to see the treasures of Tutankhamun," she said, recalling the rush to see the ...

A rare sixth-century sword has been uncovered in an Anglo-Saxon burial site near Canterbury, England. This remarkable find offers new insights into early medieval life and could reshape our ...

Roughly around 823 AD, though some accounts say 825 AD, something extraordinary occurred. The Cornish folk, known as the ...

London - Discovery of an almost intact Anglo Saxon royal burial chamber in southeast England may shed new light on the Dark Ages, archaeologists said on Thursday. More than 60 objects from gold ...

If intervention TV was around in England’s Dark Ages, they might have focused on episode of “Hoarders” on the Anglo-Saxons. Unlike denizens of the popular show, however, what the ancient ...

The Germanic Anglo-Saxons migrated to Britain around the beginning of the 5th century and by 900AD had established four powerful kingdoms - East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria and Wessex - turning ...

Our Dark Age Anglo-Saxon ancestors ended up in coffins made of decidedly substandard timber – according to new archaeological research. In the first ever group of Dark Age wooden coffins ever ...

Archeologists discover Dark Age treasure: ‘Most important Anglo-Saxon find in history’ ARCHEOLOGISTS have stumbled upon Britain’s most spectacular Anglo-Saxon treasures.

However, the skill of Anglo-Saxon art, metal-work and manuscripts does not suggest a ‘dark age’ at all. Archaeology is revealing new treasures, most famously with Sutton Hoo in 1939.