In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks transported an important collection of texts to continental Europe. Written during ...

One of the largest land art appendages—part of the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, UK—might have been covered up after a local ...

King Henry VIII, who was crowned on this day in 1509, once made the decision to knock down an entire small village in England ...

Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...

Claims that Easter is rooted in pagan worship—especially of a goddess named Ishtar—are common but largely unfounded. This video breaks down the only historical reference to the Anglo-Saxon goddess ...

Matthew Seaver from the National Museum of Ireland tells us why the new Words on the Wave exhibition at the NMI is an ...

The Christian Anglo-Saxon community in Lyminge founded an important “double” monastery—home to both monks and nuns—dating from the seventh to ninth century. The existence of this monastery ...

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Britain from 5th century AD. They were made up of Germanic tribes who emigrated from continental Europe, as well as indigenous Britons who adopted ...

Historians have long-been intrigued by a reference by the 8th Century monk-chronicler Bede to the royal complex at Rendlesham, Suffolk. After more than a decade of surveys and excavations, the ...

The golden belt buckle discovered in the Sutton Hoo burial hoard. Jononmac46/Wiki Commons, CC BY-SA Eleven burials from the fifth to eighth century found in the pre-Christian cemetery of Buckland ...