The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century, a new study finds.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important artifacts of English history. As a text, it is a remarkable record of ...

In Roman Britain many people had been Christians. But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians, they were pagans. Anglo-Saxons believed in lucky charms. They thought that rhymes, potions ...

One state mouthpiece who once boasted how Russia could reduce the United States to a smouldering pile of radioactive ash, is now talking about a “great troika” of China, Russia and the US.

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

I attended a workshop in Fulda, a city right in the middle of Germany. To medievalists, it is best known as the resting place ...

The silver penny brooch dates to the end of the reign of the last Anglo-Saxon king, says an expert. The items will form part of an exhibition that will be held at a museum in Scunthorpe.

West-Stow Anglo-Saxon Museum closed after the power cut hit the IP28 6 area, just north of Bury St Edmunds. A museum's manager said: "It isn't a total hit as we've been able to have families and ...

Archaeologists have made a stunning breakthrough after discovering an 11th Centry medieval toilet that has helped to unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery. Researchers from the University of Exeter and ...

Free play sessions will be held at one of the country's most famous Anglo-Saxon archaeological sites. From March, the National Trust is opening up its Sutton Hoo site, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk ...