Linguists tell us that the Anglo-Saxons gave us most of the words we use today. They provided most of the clean ones and nearly every four-letter one you use after slamming a door on your thumb or ...

Monumental,” “tremendous,” and “striking” have all been used to describe how much of an achievement The Brutalist is, but there isn’t enough verbiage to replace the grandeur of the experience itself.

The Anglo-Saxon word “wergild,” meaning “man price,” now designates ... states that a man must pay 40 shekels of silver if he cuts off another man’s nose, but only 2 shekels if he knocks out another ...

A healthier brain could one day be just a snort away: bacteria that colonize the nose have been engineered to ferry drugs to the brains of mice. “Drugs often don’t get to where they need to go ...

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

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Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby ...

The discovery not only sheds light on the final Anglo-Saxon king, it also provides a rare window into a key turning point in history for England, researchers said. Bosham is named on the Bayeux ...

British archaeologists have located the remains of an 11th-century royal residence in Bosham, West Sussex—almost certainly that of King Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon ruler of England. This discovery ...

A newly deciphered inscription suggests the immense "Galloway Hoard" found in Scotland over a decade ago was held in common.