In 1066, England faced a royal succession crisis that would bring centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule to a dramatic end. When King Edward the Confessor died without an heir, Harold Godwinson claimed the ...

Very few people in England ate large amounts of meat before the Vikings settled, and there is no evidence that elites ate more meat than other people, a major new bioarchaeological study suggests. Its ...

In 869, the Great Heathen Army invaded East Anglia, bringing the Anglo-Saxon kingdom into a devastating confrontation with the Viking forces associated with Ivar the Boneless. King Edmund, who had ...

Saxons resist Norman rule after 1066? William faced several serious rebellions between 1068 and 1071, but in the end remains ...

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Woodbridge, England — In a far-flung corner of southeast England, in a boatshed on the River Debden, a former U.S. Navy submariner whose career saw him serve on some of the most advanced ...

It was hailed as one of the most exciting archaeological finds in Britain in decades: an undisturbed Anglo-Saxon burial chamber chanced upon during a road widening project near Prittlewell, in Essex.

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Contrary to popular belief, the ruling classes gorged on meat only on rare occasions, according to an analysis of more than 2,000 skeletons buried during medieval times. By Maria Cramer Anglo-Saxon ...

Archaeologists in Scotland recently uncovered an Anglo-Saxon coin dating back 1,000 years that was minted under a king known as “the Unready.” The coin was unearthed during an excavation in Nesting, a ...