The images on the stamp are similar to those found on the Sutton Hoo helmet, which was unearthed in 1939 from an Anglo-Saxon ...

A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed ...

Now, some six years later, the investigation is ongoing, and the fields of Rendlesham are helping to fill in our knowledge of the kingdom that the Anglo-Saxon royals of Sutton Hoo once presided over.

History is written by the winners – but in the ground beneath our feet, lie secrets someone has tried to bury. We travel back ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

Jan Hjort was using a metal detector to scan a field on the Danish island of Tåsinge when he discovered a small piece of ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...