Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 400s, the Western Roman Empire abandoned Britain to its own devices. Twin brothers Hengist and Horsa saw an opportunity to ...

During England’s late Anglo-Saxon period, before the Norman Conquest of 1066, “people of means moved heaven and earth to get silk because it allowed them to appropriate its associated meanings for ...

On April 16, the news broke that Trump loyalists in the House were planning to form an “America First” caucus to defend the nation’s purported “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” The news ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. Using a combination of ground-penetrating radar, data from past archaeological excavations ...

According to an Old English manuscript chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons, a mysterious "red crucifix" appeared in the "heavens" over Britain one evening in A.D. 774. Now astronomers say it ...

[That] year Sigehelm and Athelstan took to Rome – and also to India to [the shrines of] St Thomas and St Bartholomew – the alms which King Alfred had vowed to send there when they besieged the raiding ...

Over the past month, our understanding of England’s distant past has been upended—not by trained archaeologists, but by two hobbyists with simple metal detectors. While prospecting in village ...