Near the end of Roman rule, Britain was being attacked by the Picts and Scots from the north, and the Anglo-Saxons from the sea. The Romans built forts to defend the coast and Hadrian's wall ...

Recent scholarship presents an intriguing, and persuasive, case for the migration hypothesis. Analyzing DNA from hundreds of Anglo-Saxon-era bones in England and in northwest Europe, a paper in ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

An astonishing find of a sixth-century sword was unearthed by archaeologists from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural Kent near ...

In recent years, critics in the UK have been scrutinizing aspects of its history, even down to criticizing the use of the term "Anglo-Saxon" to describe the native peoples for which England was named.