History is written by the winners – but in the ground beneath our feet, lie secrets someone has tried to bury. We travel back ...

Jan Hjort was using a metal detector to scan a field on the Danish island of Tåsinge when he discovered a small piece of ...

The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early ...

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 ...

Aethelbert Name of a king. Anglo-Saxon Baby Names, English Baby Names Aethelflaed Sister of King Edward. Anglo-Saxon Baby Names Aethelfrith Name of a king. Anglo-Saxon Baby Names ...

But this is a problem economists have created for themselves by claiming to be objective – politicians will pick up anything presented as fact, and misuse it. Moran writes that his new book, Why We’re ...

This gripping historical saga, packed with intense battles and emotional depth, has been hailed as superior to Game of Thrones.