After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

Among the pieces are two combs made of bone or deer antler, one of which has a geometric decoration that evokes parallels ...

Since this century began, Vikings have been the subject of countless historical documentaries, multiple streaming series and ...

Discovered in a field in Scotland in 2014, the Viking Age "community property" is now the focus of a new exhibition in ...

A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...

The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 11lbs (5kg ... based on four arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes. Three of the inscriptions feature Old English name elements, but the fourth and ...

Experts believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a Viking. One of them was a double-headed coin, showing two rulers of England. Alfred the Great, who ruled Wessex ...

The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age. The hoard “was buried ... “The top layer was a parcel of silver bullion and a rare Anglo-Saxon cross, separated from a lower layer ...

Malcolm Weale was in a farmer’s field with his metal detector when he unearthed a tiny and dirt-covered object ...

A team of archeologists in the United Kingdom believe that they have found the lost residence of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. The home is shown in the 1,000 year-old ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...