Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved elite sword from a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury. This rare find provides valuable insights into early Medieval ...

Long before medieval crowns and royal courts, England’s earliest kings traced their bloodline to a god—Woden. From Hengest and Horsa to the royal houses of Anglo-Saxon England, his name echoed through ...

The 90-foot-long (27-meter) wooden ship was dragged half a mile (0.8 kilometer) from the River Deben when an Anglo-Saxon warrior king died 1,400 years ago.

It remains unclear what rare artefact representedMetal detectorists have found a rare gold and garnet raven head in southwestern England’s Wiltshire from the Anglo-Saxon period about 1,400 years ...

A medievalist explains what "Anglo-Saxon" really means—and why scholars are still concerned, even as the "America First Caucus" hits pause.

Anglo-Saxon was a way to distinguish genteel old-money types, such as nativist Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, from members of inferior races who had names such as, well, McCarthy.

New research questions famed burial of ‘first’ Christian Anglo-Saxon king It was long suspected that the spectacular Prittlewell burial belonged to the first Christian leader of the Kingdom of ...

What the ‘Anglo Saxon traditions’ controversy says about our current moment April 20, 2021 More than 4 years ago Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in February. (Susan Walsh/AP) ...