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Known as the Bromeswell bucket, the artifact found at England’s Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon site probably held the cremated remains of an important person, archaeologists say.
Archaeologists found missing pieces of a sixth century vessel from the famed Sutton Hoo site, as well as the cremated human remains and other objects it once held.
Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.
After the Normans took control of England, the Anglo-Saxons experienced a significant shift. Join us as we uncover what happened to them in the aftermath of the 1066 conquest. 8 found guilty of ...
Modern depictions of Medieval Europe show people who are mostly Anglo-Saxon. However ... they explored maps of Asia and Africa. The maps were not perfect, but the passion was there. During the Middle ...
A team of archeologists in the United Kingdom believe that they have found the lost residence of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of ... poured over maps and records, and took a closer ...
Helen Gittos, 50, an associate professor of early medieval history at the University of Oxford, has released a new research paper into the Anglo Saxon wonder near Woodbridge in Suffolk.
This rare sword, found in one of the graves in a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery, offers a unique look into the early Middle Ages.
Although rusted and fragmentary, the helmet reflects the power of its owner, who may have been the Anglo-Saxon king Rædwald ... England in the early Middle Ages. The ship burial's style is ...
The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages ... manuscripts of Ptolemy’s text and maps. In 1406, his Greek text was translated ...
Legends, stories, and images turned it into a symbol of the Middle Ages that would transcend time ... epic heroes and knights. Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon epic poem dating to between the eighth ...