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 ...

THE question, Are the Americans an Anglo-Saxon people? Is usually answered in the affirmative. Most of the world takes it for granted as a universally accepted fact that they are Anglo-Saxon.

An unusual piece of Anglo-Saxon jewelry — a plagiarized pendant rife with typos — that was discovered by a metal detectorist has now been declared treasure in the U.K. The pendant imitates a ...

Metal detectorists in southwest England unearthed the two gold-and-garnet objects from the Anglo-Saxon period in January.

While this find isn’t nearly as massive as the aforementioned treasure hoards of legend, what detectorists Paul Gould and ...

TASS/. The Anglo-Saxons, contrary to all concepts of nobility, have at different times wanted not only a cold but also a hot war with Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told TASS in an ...

The artefacts have been dated to the Anglo-Saxon era of 7th century AD, Paul Gould, one of the two detectorists who found them in January said. It’s not clear what the raven head represented but ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...

How did the Anglo-Saxon period shape England as we know it today?