Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby ...

The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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.

Archaeological evidence suggests people in already living in England were keen to trade with Angles and Saxons. Alfred the Great is perhaps the most famous Anglo-Saxon king. He ruled from 871 – 899.

One of the most famous Anglo-Saxon kings was Alfred ... promote learning throughout his kingdom he ruled and try to unite the Anglo-Saxons as one people – the English. And because Asser wrote ...

The famous, rambunctious feast scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, two years before King Harold was brutally killed at the Battle ...

The burial mound of Sutton Hoo. Credit: Neil Theasby / Wikimedia Commons The most recent study, published in the English Historical Review, proposes a groundbreaking hypothesis: some Anglo-Saxons may ...

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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 ...

Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the identity of the remains found at a famous burial site near Suffolk, England.