A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed ...

Mercia saw the rise of kings, Christianity and our very identity, as Max Adams reveals in this genius history, The Mercian Chronicles ...

Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

Presenting fresh archaeological evidence, Dr Duncan Wright shares how a team of experts might have found the lost living ...

The remains of King Harold II, who died at the famed Battle of Hastings, have never been found. But thanks to the Bayeux ...

Archaeologists pinpoint the site of King Harold’s elite residence, depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, using a surprising clue: ...

From Bede’s account and later sources, we know that the main Anglo-Saxon leader at this battle was Aethelfrith, king of ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king.

After 900 years, experts have discovered the site of King Harold's residence in Sussex, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.

King Harold II, one of the subjects of the Bayeux Tapestry, was famously killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

The government has imposed an export bar on a rare Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet panel found ... two of the most powerful kingdoms in 7th Century England. As the item has met more than one of ...