A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo-Saxons?" New ...
The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries AD. While acidic sandy soils have dissolved the bones, the excavators have ...
The acidic sand of the Suffolk coast has preserved not bones, but shadows; spectral silhouettes that delineate with ...
It’s official. The Anglo-Saxons are getting canceled. The move comes more than 1,000 years too late for the previously ascendant Romano-British who couldn’t resist these Germanic peoples who showed up ...
Except for the fence, one can imagine the English countryside looks much as it must have when Germanic tribes settled here in the 5th to 7th century A.D. (William Dotinga/Courthouse News) (CN) --- The ...
Archaeologists excavating ahead of the Sizewell C development on the Suffolk coast have uncovered an exceptionally rare medieval glass jewel depicting the Crucifixion - an object so small it could fit ...
The ancestry of early Anglo-Saxons, a subject of some debate, included immigrants from continental Europe as well as people indigenous to Great Britain, according to a study published June 23, 2021 in ...
Among the most remarkable discoveries is a high-status grave containing two individuals buried alongside a fully harnessed ...
In Anglo-Saxon times, more than three-quarters of the ancestry of people in parts of England was from recent north European migrants. The finding, which comes from sequencing the DNA of people buried ...
In the 400s, the Western Roman Empire abandoned Britain to its own devices. Twin brothers Hengist and Horsa saw an opportunity to lead an Anglo-Saxon invasion and reshape England’s identity. But ...
A new, old specter is haunting the world: the bloodthirsty Anglo-Saxons. Well, that is what the Kremlin wants the world to believe. Take the new Russian state-backed film “Tolerance.” Released in ...
The site was discovered during excavations for the Sizewell C nuclear power station ...