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Behind every king was a queen—and in Anglo-Saxon England, their lives were anything but peaceful. These royal women faced exile, poison, betrayal... and sometimes fought back.
Lisa Saxon was one of only three women covering covering Major League Baseball full time in the late '70s for the LA Daily News. () The world of sports writing has long been a male-dominated ...
In spite of the fact that women in Anglo-Saxon England were living to a ripe old age, a new archaeological study in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology called "Sex and the Elderly" shows ...
Hundreds of elite Anglo-Saxon women were buried with mysterious ivory rings. Now, researchers know the ivory came from elephants living about 4,000 miles away from England.
The Anglo-Saxon bling suggested the woman was powerful in her own right and extremely devout, perhaps an early Christian leader, a princess or an abbess. The ornate gold necklace ...
A wealthy pagan burial ground, dating from the first years of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain during the fifth century A.D., has been uncovered near London ahead of a high-speed rail project ...
Lisa Saxon and Melissa Ludtke were barred from locker rooms, harassed by players and ignored by managers while covering MLB teams in the '70s and '80s. Four decades later, a woman won the highest ...
One lead tablet was engraved with an Anglo-Saxon woman's name, "Cudberg." This lead tablet is inscribed with the word "Cudberg," an Anglo-Saxon woman's name.
Twenty-four of the skeletons were Anglo-Saxon women who were related maternally to several individuals. The other skeletons included men and children.