British folklore tells the story of twin brothers Hengist and Horsa, who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. But were ...

A brand new medieval village has been discovered in Suffolk, England, near the modern village of Friston in eastern England, ...

Unlike most Anglo-Saxon gold hoards, which are typically recovered from burial contexts alongside human remains and other grave goods, these objects were found scattered across a slope with no ...

The chance to witness a stunning sunrise slowly appearing from the darkness on New Year's Day was too hard to resist for some ...

Introduced in the wake of the Norman Conquest, the murdrum fine was meant to protect Norman settlers from revenge killings.

A peculiar seventh-century hoard unearthed in the English countryside could be the result of a "ritual killing," according to archaeologists.

Beneath medieval Bamburgh Castle on England’s northeast coast lie the remains of a royal Anglo-Saxon fortress that was once the seat of the kings of Northumbria. (Colin Carter Photography/Getty Images ...

At 224 feet long and roughly 770 pounds, the Bayeux Tapestry is a large piece of medieval embroidery. It depicts the events surrounding and leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, when William ...

Across time and cultures, facial mutilation has been a preferred form of punishment for various crimes, but why?

The Treasury is set to insure the Bayeux Tapestry against damage for an estimated £800m while it is on loan to the British ...

The British Treasury is set to insure the Bayeux Tapestry against damage for an estimated £800 million while it is on loan to ...

Horses are instinctively wired to run from danger. So how did medieval armies train them to thunder towards enemy lines ...