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 ...

Warfare between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons continued for the next few decades. The latter continued to grow more ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...

Related: Anglo-Saxon teen girl discovered buried with ... enthusiasm for death by respect for payment," according to a seventh-century Byzantine historian. Foreign warriors recruited by the ...

In Anglo-Saxon times there were few schools in England and only a handful of people went to them. Schools were established in the 6th or 7th century. They were attached to churches and monasteries ...