In 927, Athelstan became the first king to rule over all of England — and it hadn't been an easy journey. Though he was the ...

Archaeologist Stunned to Unearth Anglo-Saxon Coin Hoard in Mint Condition From a Construction Site England's history is marked by countless conflicts and a succession of rulers from various lineages.

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

Researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Newcastle believe they have uncovered Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon king of England’s long-lost residence. Experts had until ...

Just inside the gates of the south ambulatory in Westminster Abbey is an arched recess containing the supposed tomb of a legendary founder of an earlier church on the site, Sebert (or Sebbe) King of ...

Most important of all, the people who buried the king made sure that he’d look good in the next world by burying him with his best Anglo-Saxon ruler bling which is where this gold comes in and ...

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But King Offa still overshadows all, having dominated the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for the last decades of the 8th century and having bequeathed us, most probably, the eponymous dyke.

The literary King Arthur story that developed in the later middle ages ... a broad peninsula with one good entrance route from the west, the Icknield Way. The Saxons erected a series of earthworks ...