Compelling new research from the University of Oxford argues that early medieval soldiers were recruited from Britain into ...

Monasteries were the only schools in Anglo-Saxon England. Boys lived there to train as monks and some girls became nuns. Roman Christianity was strong in Europe, North Africa and Middle Eastern ...

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 ...

What it is: A decorated Anglo-Saxon metal helmet with a faceplate ... the cosmopolitan nature of southern England in the early Middle Ages. The ship burial's style is Scandinavian, and within ...

New research by Oxford University has suggested Anglo-Saxons were more connected to other parts of the world than previously thought.