"I rang my son and said, 'You need to come – I've found a sword and there's a hand on the end of it!'" By the time his son, ...

A 'haunted' Somerset prison where notorious killers met their end has since transformed into an "eye-opening" tourist ...

A brand new medieval village has been discovered in Suffolk, England, near the modern village of Friston in eastern England, ...

We've ranked the most interesting archaeological finds of all time, ranging from the intricate ruins of Machu Picchu to the ...

Visiting some of England’s most glorious cathedrals is becoming a pricey business, costing anything from £7.50 (Exeter) to ...

The fourteenth-century Icelandic Edwardsaga chronicles the life of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (reigned 1042–1066). It also describes how, in the years after the Norman ...

The team recreating a famous Anglo-Saxon burial ship is inviting the public to name it, but urged against joke suggestions like "Boaty McBoatface". The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company (SHSC) is ...

The people of England got their name from the Angles, who, along with the Saxons, invaded in the early- to mid-5th century AD, after the Roman Empire began to groan under the weight of barbarian ...

A vast Anglo-Saxon settlement and cemetery complex has been discovered in England that is being called a “one of a kind” discovery. Not, however, because the site was found laden with gold and silver, ...

The late Anglo-Saxon period was defined by ever-shifting struggles for supremacy. Across Northern Europe, chaos collided with opportunity, and Thorkell the Tall was among the many figures who set ...