Discover the riverside market town where Anglo-Saxon kings were crowned. See the ancient stone said to have been their coronation seat, the medieval church beside it, the market place with its ...

The Anglo-Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo. The Anglo-Saxons were different tribes of people from Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark. They settled in England - land of the Angles - from around AD450 ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to directly estimate the Anglo-Saxon ancestry of the British population, using ancient skeletons. Human remains excavated from burial sites near ...

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously depicts William the Conqueror's victory over the so-called Anglo-Saxons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons People in the United States and Great Britain ...

From barbarian invaders to devout Christian missionaries, the Anglo-Saxons brought four hundred years of religious evolution and shifting political power to the British Isles. In 410 the Roman emperor ...

Scholars have long been fascinated by the Anglo-Saxon period of British history, which spans approximately 600 years, from the end of Roman rule in around AD 410 to the start of the Norman conquest in ...

The idea that there is a common Anglo-Saxon ancestry based on biology is gaining currency among some right-wing and religious groups in the UK and US. In the UK, the new leader of the UK Independence ...