"The Last Kingdom" follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a young Saxon who is kidnapped and raised by Vikings before working for ...

In 927, Athelstan became the first king to rule over all of England — and it hadn't been an easy journey. Though he was the ...

They are used both for ventilation and to allow access to or egress (of people or materials) from deep workings (Photo courtesy of ACOR) AMMAN — At the beginning of the 10th century BC, there was a ...

The earl was the king's ‘right hand man’ in a shire. The position was not hereditary, but it became usual in the 10th century to choose earls from a few outstanding families. The upper group ...

Researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Newcastle believe they have uncovered Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon king of ... twice in an 11th-century embroidered work known ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

It is a tale of endless war and at the end of it, in the early years of the 10th Century, a new nation is ... in the Somerset marshes it seemed that Saxon Britain was doomed, and that Alfred ...

The Athagur inscription is carved on a hero stone dated to the 10th Century CE and was installed in honour of a dog called Kali, which belonged to Butuga II, who was a vassal of a Rashtrakuta king.