Historians had long assumed that Anglo-Saxon elites ate far more meat than the peasantry they lorded over because of documents itemizing food tributes, known as “feorm” in Old English.

A rare Anglo Saxon burial site next to a monastery once run by an 8th century English Queen has been discovered by ...

‘Who were the Anglo-Saxons?’ is a question that has been debated for many years—and one that researchers from Simon Fraser University and the University of Sydney may have helped resolve. By exploring ...

ONE of England’s oldest families may not have Anglo-Saxon origins after all, new genealogical research carried out by the University of Strathclyde has revealed.

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 ...

LONDON – An amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, a massive seventh-century hoard of gold and silver ...

Anglo-Saxon England, which has been running since the 1970s, was renamed Early Medieval England and its Neighbours by Cambridge University Press during a relaunch earlier this week.

Say the term “Anglo-Saxon” to most people, and they’re likely to picture the Smashing Saxons from Horrible Historiesor the protagonists of Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom. In the ...

Their worried were well founded: In 934 A.D., the Anglo-Saxons invaded a portion of Alba (now Scotland). Constantine, king of Alba, gave over some of his territory and appeased the Anglo-Saxon king.