The “Dream of the Rood” is a poem was written in Anglo-Saxon, the ancient dialect that is the ancestor of modern English, and we modern people would not be able to read it off a page of the ...

The mystery of whether the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf was written by one person or stitched together from multiple sources may have finally been solved by Harvard University.

But this is the story of Beowulf, a poem once told in timber-framed barns in Anglo-Saxon England, to the raucous noise of the mead-swilling crowd.

Anglo-Saxon hoard revealed: 4,000 pieces of stunning handcrafted treasure hint that Beowolf's description of 'golden warriors' is true. A total of 4,000 pieces of the Staffordshire Hoard have been ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a key component of a mysterious artifact at Sutton Hoo, a National Trust site in Suffolk, England, famous for the seventh century Anglo-Saxon “ghost ship” burial ...

Meet the original monster slayer: A new retelling of epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf has become one of the most expensive ITV dramas ever made. The £17 million epic is hoped to rival Game Of ...

The venerable dons of the Cambridge University Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic History -- apparently suffering from a profound crisis of identity -- will now be instructing their ...

US News: After World War II, the Anglo-Saxon brotherhood set the rules for the world order to preserve its neo-colonial hegemony. But the rise of Asia is chipp ...

Hundreds of elite Anglo-Saxon women were buried with mysterious ivory rings. Now, researchers know the ivory came from elephants living about 4,000 miles away from England.

Among the best preserved pieces of Anglo-Saxon metalwork, the Fuller Brooch is an ornate tribute to human perception of the moral and material worlds. Skip to Main Content.

British news outlet The Telegraph reported that the term "Anglo-Saxon" is under scrutiny at the University of Nottingham. "In a move to ‘decolonise the curriculum,’ professors have renamed a ...