The last half-century of Anglo-Saxon England was perfectly framed by foreign invasions. The first was the Danish conquest of 1016 at the hands of King Cnut. This was to serve, in many ways, as the ...

Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries was a key event in the formation of England. Following the collapse of Roman control over Britain, the Anglo-Saxons, a group of tribes ...

An excavation has revealed an elaborate hall in the east of England of early Anglo-Saxon kings, which was used for feasting by monarchs and their warriors roughly 1,400 years ago.

On October 29th the hoard goes on view at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C., where it will be on view until March 4th, 2012. The show is called “Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold From ...

Anglo-Saxon culture arrived in early England from France with brutal impact and a long-lasting influence on the culture. But what does it mean to be of Anglo-Saxon heritage in modern England?

Pillaging Vikings did not wipe out England's Anglo-Saxon monks after all as archaeologists found that the Kent monastery survived repeated attacks from Norse invaders for nearly a century. Lyminge ...

An Anglo-Saxon warrior king was buried within a wooden ship at Sutton Hoo 1,400 years ago in East Anglia in England. Now, a team is reconstructing the iconic ship, discovered during a 1939 ...