Archaeologists recently discovered the purpose of a mysterious 1,500-year-old bucket at one of England’s most historic sites – and it wasn’t pleasant.

Known as the Bromeswell bucket, the artifact found at England’s Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon site probably held the cremated remains of an important person, archaeologists say.

Archaeologists found missing pieces of a sixth century vessel from the famed Sutton Hoo site, as well as the cremated human ...

The answer is complicated.) Their worried were well founded: In 934 A.D., the Anglo-Saxons invaded a portion of Alba (now Scotland). Constantine, king of Alba, gave over some of his territory and ...

Archaeologists suggest that these Anglo-Saxon leaders were not only aware of the geopolitical complexities of the Mediterranean but also actively engaged in them. Despite its discovery nearly a ...

“There was a big Anglo-Saxon church there called St Mary’s where he was brought to be buried. That was knocked down 200 years after his death to make way for the new abbey. When they were ...

close to a separate area where a long hall and field system ditches were recorded. The findings indicate Anglo-Saxons probably lived and farmed in this landscape over multiple phases between the ...

They were ignored. So, what are these arguments against the term’s use that so easily broke the massed ranks of academics like a flimsy shield wall? Well, there are two: that “Anglo-Saxon ...

Although we call the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons “Old English,” English ... many of which have either long since dropped out of use or were replaced by their continental equivalents ...