The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. The famous ...

The pendant is unique, Marsden told Live Science in an email. In the fifth and sixth centuries, Anglo-Saxons were pagan, but the Roman Empire had converted to Christianity in A.D. 380 under the ...

Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the ...

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

From barbarian invaders to devout Christian missionaries, the Anglo-Saxons brought four hundred years of religious evolution and shifting political power to the British Isles. English owes much to ...

The excavation is part of a major project along the eastern British coast to identify the immigration patterns of Anglo-Saxons from the fifth and sixth centuries as they moved to Britain from northern ...

In Roman Britain many people had been Christians. But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians, they were pagans. Anglo-Saxons believed in lucky charms. They thought that rhymes, potions ...

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

The late 5th to early 6th Century pendant was created at a time when Anglo-Saxons were pagans, which was "slightly ironic", said coin expert Adrian Marsden. The find was discovered in a field near ...