Archaeologists may have discovered remains of a hall which belonged to the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.Harold ...

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Fears that artificial intelligence may affect our personal identities are justified.

The etymology of mistletoe — a plant with small, oval evergreen leaves and waxy white berries — may strike some as repugnant.

The fourteenth-century Icelandic Edwardsaga chronicles the life of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (reigned 1042–1066). It also describes how, in the years after the Norman ...

Clockwise from top left: Silver penny of Offa, Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia (front and back); silver coin of Cynethryth, Anglo-Saxon queen of Mercia (front and back); silver penny of Alfred the Great, ...

The term Anglo-Saxon has been removed from a University’s module titles to tackle “nationalist narratives”. The University of Nottingham offers leading courses in Anglo-Saxon history and literature ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University and Elizaveta Gaufman, University of Groningen (THE ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Well, that is what the Kremlin wants the world to believe. Take the new Russian ...