Archaeologists say a second oven has been unearthed, suggesting it was a busy hub producing cloth.

The discovery was made by farm labourers clearing a hedge in 1866.

The Cerne Abbas Giant's origins remain shadowy, with British research revealing that it was likely carved during between 700 ...

Each of us tells a story about who we are, often tracing our identity back through an imagined line of ancestors. Though identity is fundamentally cultural, we tend to anchor it in biology—in the idea ...

The Anglo-Saxons who conquered England in the 5th century set up a system of apartheid that enabled them to master and outbreed the native British majority, according to gene research. In less than 15 ...

The Vikings invaded England in the 9th and 10th centuries. They plundered, raped and burned towns to the ground. Or at least, this is the story we know from school and popular culture. But the ...

Despite their occupations of Britain, the Romans and Vikings didn't leave much of a genetic mark on Britons. The Anglo-Saxons ...

It’s official. The Anglo-Saxons are getting canceled. The move comes more than 1,000 years too late for the previously ascendant Romano-British who couldn’t resist these Germanic peoples who showed up ...

With the Codex Amiatinus, the earliest surviving text of Beowulf and serpents galore, this blockbuster exhibition reveals a Britain not very English at all The gallery is full of snakes that twist and ...