David "Mac" MacDonald used to serve on U.S. nuclear subs. Now he's working on a precise replica of a ship that set sail ...

Long before medieval crowns and royal courts, England’s earliest kings traced their bloodline to a god—Woden. From Hengest and Horsa to the royal houses of Anglo-Saxon England, his name echoed through ...

What was the most important battle in English history? If you answered the Battle of Hastings, the 1066 A.D. conflict in which the Normans successfully took over the English crown, you’re not alone.

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of ...

In his lifetime, the first king of England was renowned throughout Europe. But over the centuries, he has been sidelined by ...

This dissertation analyzes personified objects in Anglo-Saxon poetry alongside surviving inscribed objects to show how the Anglo-Saxons perceived writing as a wondrous and powerful technology that was ...

When we think of medieval England, we often imagine noble Saxons fighting cruel Normans, with Robin Hood and Ivanhoe caught ...

Towards the end of The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth’s Booker-longlisted 2014 novel, a band of Anglo-Saxon guerillas come across a group of their subjected countrymen. The latter are forced to work for the ...

The pair join a service in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel in a symbolic display of unity between the Catholic Church and the ...

Metal detectorists have found a rare gold and garnet raven head in southwestern England’s Wiltshire from the Anglo-Saxon period about 1,400 years ago. They have also unearthed a gold band or ring ...

The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge (UK) in the 7th century with an incredibly rare gold and garnet cross (the 'Trumpington Cross') has been reconstructed following analysis of her ...

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