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 ...

Anglo-Saxons believed in lucky charms ... Roman Christianity was strong in Europe, North Africa and Middle Eastern regions. St Adrian was a famous abbot (head of a monastery) from North Africa ...

A museum is fighting to avoid a “tragic loss” and keep a rare Anglo-Saxon treasure in the region. The Novium Museum in ...

Compelling new research from the University of Oxford argues that early medieval soldiers were recruited from Britain into ...

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British county of Kent. The immaculately preserved sword was one of a handful of artifacts found at a site that ...

While Sutton Hoo yielded many artifacts, it wasn't until the 2003 discovery of the "Prittlewell Prince," an Anglo-Saxon nobleman buried in the Essex region east of London, that many of the Sutton ...

Visitors would be able to see "our region's very-own Anglo-Saxon treasure haul", just fives miles away from where the objects were buried, he added. The Hidden Valley exhibition opens at North ...

These forces, known as Foederati, included Germanic warriors and possibly Anglo-Saxons. According to historical records, these soldiers played a crucial role in military campaigns on the empire’s ...