Archaeologists from the U.K.’s University of Reading have discovered the site of an ancient Anglo-Saxon monastery that was ruled by a royal abbess, Queen Cynethryth. Cynethryth is believed to have ...

A metal detectorist scanning a Norfolk field pulled from the ground what turned out to be England’s largest known hoard of ...

A sixth-century sword bearing carved runes has been recovered from an Anglo-Saxon burial ground in Kent, England, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study inscribed weaponry from the early ...

Archaeologists in England have identified a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house, which, they say, may once have been the home of a king who became a saint. Thought to date from the early 9th century, ...

FEW groups of people exert more power on English imagination than the Anglo-Saxons. They first appear in the historical record in the 1st millennium AD, in the wake of the Roman Empire’s retreat from ...

A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo-Saxons?" New ...