NORTHAMPTON, England (Reuters) - A rare discovery of 81 Anglo-Saxon coffins made from the hollowed-out trunks of oak trees may provide new insights into how people lived in the early days of ...

The Anglo-Saxon Church to negotiate a way forward in a context which, at one time, would have seemed disastrous.

A range of early Christian and Anglo Saxon artefacts will go on display at Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island, English Heritage has announced. Britain's first known prayer bead necklace, one of the ...

Off the coast of Northumberland lies an island known by two names. Lindisfarne, or Holy Island. But why does it have two ...

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Archaeologists excavating a site near Cambridge have found the grave of an Anglo-Saxon girl who was buried in her bed along with a Christian cross. The teenager's skeleton was in an ornamental bed ...

Image caption, The skull of an Anglo-Saxon girl was found with a jewelled symbol of Christianity An Anglo-Saxon grave discovered near Cambridge could be one of the earliest examples of Christianity ...

It’s official. The Anglo-Saxons are getting canceled. The move comes more than 1,000 years too late for the previously ascendant Romano-British who couldn’t resist these Germanic peoples who showed up ...

The Anglo-Saxons were a group of Germanic tribes who gradually invaded England starting in the 5th century in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire. Originally, they came from what is now the ...

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