Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early medieval Anglo-Saxon history. But the reexamination isn’t due to anything new ...

(Image: Pexels) Banbury It is suggested that the name Banbury could derive from "Banna", who was a Saxon chieftain said to ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

A sixth-century sword has been unearthed by archaeologists ... by University of Central Lancashire archaeologists from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury in Kent. The blade was featured ...

Here are some of the Old English names for places around Oxfordshire: The name “Oxford” comes from the Old English Oxenaforda, meaning “ford of the oxen”. This refers to a shallow crossing in the ...

The work of early Irish scholars and computists in developing mathematical tables helped to solve the thorny problems of ...

British archaeologists looking for evidence of prehistoric activity in the English county of Dorset discovered instead a mass grave holding 54 male skeletons. Oxford Archaeology Before ...

The images on the stamp are similar to those found on the Sutton Hoo helmet, which was unearthed in 1939 from an Anglo-Saxon ship burial site in Britain. For a long time, archaeologists thought the ...