Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved elite sword from a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury ...

Ancient DNA analysis has revealed a rare instance of two siblings being buried together in an Anglo-Saxon grave. The grave in ...

CANTERBURY, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern England. The weapon features a gild and silver ...

The advancement of ancient genetics has solved an archaeological mystery of decades: the double burial discovered in ...

Ancient DNA analysis has confirmed that a young boy and a teenage girl buried together in a 1,400-year-old Anglo-Saxon grave in Cherington, Gloucestershire, were brother and sister, and that they ...

The Sutton Hoo sword, a sixth- or seventh-century, two-and-a-half-foot Anglo-Saxon blade excavated in Suffolk in 1939, was a remarkable find: over 1,400 years old and discovered in one rusty piece.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Target practice for jousting: consisting of a cross-bar turning upon a pivot with a broad part to strike against. Illustration ...

In July 2009, unemployed Terry Herbert discovered the largest Anglo-Saxon hoard ever found in Staffordshire, England. His ...

Ancient DNA work has revealed a major new breakthrough in the investigation of the Anglo-Saxon double burial discovered by Time Team and Operation Nightingale at Cherington, featured in a recent Time ...