A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed their power ...

Beneath medieval Bamburgh Castle on England’s northeast coast lie the remains of a royal Anglo-Saxon fortress that was once the seat of the kings of Northumbria. (Colin Carter Photography/Getty Images ...

A recently discovered gold pendant appears to date to a "mysterious moment" in the early 8th Century, according to an expert.

The five centuries between the end of Roman rule and the Norman Conquest were, for a long time, seen as a culturally desolate era in British history. Whereas classical civilisation was associated with ...

Lawrence Nees has been teaching University of Delaware students for 40 years, and lecturing around the world about art history for even longer than that, but he’s about to deliver what he calls ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity has revealed the discovery of two individuals with ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa who were buried in 7th-century cemeteries in southern England. The ...

He's called the 'Marlow Warlord.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists have unearthed the rich burial of a ...

The ancestry of early Anglo-Saxons, a subject of some debate, included immigrants from continental Europe as well as people indigenous to Great Britain, according to a study published June 23, 2021 in ...

BBC America's enjoyable Viking-invaders drama takes viewers back to the tumultuous birth of England. By Keith Uhlich There are admittedly few better ways to open an engagingly grimy and gory adventure ...