In the 9th century the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms came under increasing attack from the Vikings, culminating in the invasion by the great heathen army in 865. By the year 878, the Vikings had conquered East ...

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

An Anglo-Saxon gold artifact known as the Pocela Panel, discovered near Pocklington, will soon be showcased in a historic case once famous for… ...

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 ...

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 ...

The burial was likely that of Raedwald of East Anglia, who died around 624, and he was placed inside the ship, surrounded by treasures and buried within a mound. In addition to the famous ship burial, ...

The 90-foot-long (27-meter) wooden ship was dragged half a mile (0.8 kilometer) from the River Deben when an Anglo-Saxon warrior king died 1,400 years ago.

Melanie Vigo di Gallidoro, the council's deputy cabinet member for protected landscapes and archaeology, said it provided "a wealth of new understanding to Anglo-Saxon life in East Anglia".

“Later archaeological campaigns at Sutton Hoo helped solve mysteries left by the original dig and revealed more about life in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia,” he said.

Sutton Hoo is best known for the uncovering of an Anglo-Saxon burial ship in 1939. The ship is thought to have been the final resting place of King Raedwald, who ruled East Anglia in the seventh ...

To those with an interest in the Anglo Saxon history of East Anglia, the name Cratendune might ring a bell, or perhaps you've never heard of it before. Like the lost city of Atlantis, the Saxon ...