The Romans ruled much of the British Isles from A.D. 43 to 410. When the empire left Britain, the Germanic Anglo-Saxons conquered much of what is now England. The Anglo-Saxons' imitation "demonstrates ...

Now researchers can identify subtler changes over just hundreds of years, providing clues as to how people migrated and ...

On both the real and Anglo-Saxon imitation solidi, the standard clearly displays a cross, and the figure holds a miniature Nike, a traditional Roman symbol of victory. For artifacts in the U.K. to ...

The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

A History of the Beginnings of England,’ historian Marc Morris recounts the turbulent era between the abandonment of Britain ...

The sixth-century burial of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl surprised archaeologists when they discovered a small third-century Roman goblet full of pig fat near her head. An Anglo-Saxon girl who died ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "unique" ancient Roman drinking vessel mysteriously embedded in an Anglo-Saxon burial from the early 6th century A.D. The burial is one of 49 that were interred ...

The pendant, described as "very unusual," was crafted by an early Anglo-Saxon artisan in imitation of a Roman solidus coin from the reign of Emperor Honorius, who ruled the Western Roman Empire ...

Archaeologists said artefacts found at their Beeford digs, including pottery and glass beads, indicate Anglo-Saxons settled in Holderness. Items from the Bronze Age, Iron-Age and Roman period were ...