The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

In the fifth and sixth centuries, Anglo-Saxons were pagan, but the Roman Empire had converted to Christianity in A.D. 380 under the emperor Theodosius I. His son, Honorius, ruled as a Christian ...

Anglo-Saxons was the name given to this group of ... which could provide food and resources for people to live off. The Roman Empire had collapsed, so some Angles and Saxons believed they could ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king.

Revellers with drinking horns surround the last Anglo-Saxon king, who was just two years away from a painful death following an arrow to the eye. Now the famous, rambunctious feast scene in the ...

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.

A house in England is most likely the site of a lost residence of Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.

Its treasures, which include objects from the Byzantine Empire and the Mideast, have deepened researchers’ understanding of the trade networks between the Anglo-Saxons and the European mainland.

particularly from the time when the Roman Empire withdrew from Britain around 410 AD and were replaced by the Anglo-Saxons from what is now northwest Germany. The researchers have tried to solve ...

External view looking east. Credit: D. Gould et al. Recent archaeological findings have shed new light on a long-standing mystery about Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. A ...

The government has imposed an export bar on a rare Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet panel found in East Yorkshire. The piece of art was discovered by a detectorist in a field near Pocklington in 2013 ...