At a mid-winter feast on January 31, the Thegns of Mercia and the Ashton family celebrated a milestone in English heritage at ...

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Excavators recently unearthed an Anglo-Saxon "princely" grave — containing two men, a horse and grave goods — during the construction of a nuclear power station in England. The discovery was made at ...

Excavators recently unearthed an Anglo-Saxon “princely” grave — containing two men, a horse and grave goods — during the construction of a nuclear power station in England. The discovery was made at ...

Archaeologists working near Skipsea Castle in East Yorkshire say a series of rare discoveries is transforming understanding of life in the centuries before the Norman Conquest. Excavations led by the ...

Research into an 8th Century Anglo-Saxon monastery is set to continue following National Lottery funding. University of Reading archaeologists have been excavating Cookham Abbey, a monastery ruled by ...

The Ravanahatha is one of the oldest bowed string instruments in the world. It is made from a coconut shell resonator, a bamboo neck, and a horsehair bow. This combination produces a raw, haunting ...

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Grave 109 at Oakington is a rare triple burial, holding the remains of a female infant, a young woman (left) and an older woman (center). Duncan Sayer The soldiers arrived in “three ships of war, with ...