In 927, Athelstan became the first king to rule over all of England — and it hadn't been an easy journey. Though he was the ...

Fathers often handed down their swords to their sons. This is the handle of an 8th century sword. When Anglo-Saxons died, their bodies were often cremated or buried in a grave along with some ...

In the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People," the Venerable Bede wrote that Redwald, King of East Anglia starting around 599 C.E., kept a temple with altars to pre-Christian gods as well as ...

But it is the six centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule, from shortly after the ... History of the English People, written in the eighth century, is the most valuable source for this era—gives the ...

The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered contained ... In the poem, composed in the eighth century, there is a description of the burial of one Scyld Scefing, an ancestor of the Danish ...