Ancient remains dating back some 8,000 years have been discovered in a field in England during preparation to build a massive ...

You hear the term everywhere these days in politics, pop music, business, even race relations. Anglo-Saxon. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, we now know a bit more about who the ...

The five centuries between the end of Roman rule and the Norman Conquest were, for a long time, seen as a culturally desolate era in British history. Whereas classical civilisation was associated with ...

A planned road expansion in Nottinghamshire, England, has uncovered a significant archaeological site. Digs revealed evidence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bromeswell bucket is currently on display at Sutton Hoo's High Hall exhibition in Suffolk, England. - David Brunetti/National ...

Somewhere in England, buried in soil for more than a millennium, two silver pennies lay hidden with an image no other ...

A newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Oulton, England, includes more than 200 graves. Suffolk County Council Archaeologists in Suffolk, England, have discovered an Anglo-Saxon cemetery containing ...

Over the past month, our understanding of England’s distant past has been upended—not by trained archaeologists, but by two hobbyists with simple metal detectors. While prospecting in village ...

Researchers conducting excavations near Bath Abbey have uncovered the remains of an apse dated to between the late eighth and late tenth centuries. Wessex Archaeology Don’t let the tranquility of his ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to be ...

DNA analysis confirms siblings in a rare Anglo‑Saxon double burial are siblings, revealing a poignant family tragedy from ...