A guide on how to spend 48 hours in Catalonia’s colourful capital, from marvelling at Gaudí to enjoying sundowners on the ...

Where history breathes: the Anglo-Saxon stronghold of Bamburgh Castle, cradle of Christianity and Viking victim, royal palace ...

The Anglo-Saxon period, also known as the ‘Dark Ages’ stretched from the withdrawal of Roman forces in 410 AD to the conquest of England by William of Normandy in 1066. The period is ...

MORE than a thousand years ago, someone hastily buried sacks full of treasure. Now it’s revealing Dark Age secrets. Jamie Seidel @JamieSeidel 6 min read June 1, 2016 - 9:02AM News Corp Australia ...

We may never know why the cities of Roman Britain declined; whether the Anglo-Saxon arrivals were big or small, the product of peaceful migration or violent invasion. But one thing we do know is that ...

Dark origins The very first Merlin was not a wizard. Sources from the Middle Ages speak of a Welsh bard or poet from the sixth century, Myrddin Wyllt, who lived in the court of Gwenddoleu, the ...

An image of a scanned 3D model of an Anglo Saxon sword. The remarkably preserved sixth-century sword which has been unearthed at a burial site in Kent. Dr. Ash Lenton at Australian National University ...

But large mounds like those found at Sutton Hoo were almost certainly the final resting places for Anglo-Saxon nobility such as King Rædwald. The Sutton Hoo discovery shows that the "Dark Ages ...

In John Adams' telling, Jefferson even wanted America’s national seal to feature an image of the great Anglo-Saxon chiefs Hengist and Horsa, “from whom we claim the honor of being descended ...

Possibly a Romano-Celtic leader defending his lands from the pagan Anglo-Saxon invaders? It was during these Dark Ages that the Anglo-Saxons became established in eastern Britain. The Romans had ...

Anglo-Saxons began to settle in England in from AD410, and by AD500 were being fiercely resisted, in a period which used to be known as the Dark Ages, but is now called early medieval by historians.