The world as we know it today has been shaped by battles that altered the course of history and defined global power dynamics ...

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The burial mound of Sutton Hoo. Credit: Neil Theasby / Wikimedia Commons The most recent study, published in the English Historical Review, proposes a groundbreaking hypothesis: some Anglo-Saxons may ...

Harold II, William of Normandy...all kings of England in 1066. The last Roman soldiers left Britain in 410. New people came in ships across the North Sea - the Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo-Saxon age in ...

The end of the Anglo-Saxon dynasty' At the Battle of Hastings In 1066 AD Harold was killed and William crowned king Making history!

CANTERBURY, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern England. The weapon features a gild and silver ...

An incredible Anglo-Saxon sword unearthed in a field in Kent has been revealed for the first time on BBC programme Digging for Britain. Described as 'one of the most extraordinary objects' ever ...

Every December 17, I commemorate a deeply emotional anniversary: the day Harold Holt went for a swim, and never came back. Former Australian prime minister Harold Holt is gone, but never forgotten.

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British county of Kent. The immaculately preserved sword was one of a handful of artifacts found at a site that ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For 66 years, Kansas Citians have enjoyed breakfast and lunch at Harold's Drive-In in Kansas City's northeast neighborhood, and it's all coming to a close on Dec. 31.

Although rusted and fragmentary, the helmet reflects the power of its owner, who may have been the Anglo-Saxon king Rædwald. The reconstructed helmet — which consists of a cap, cheek pieces ...