When a strong Germanic signal was discovered in the Y-chromosome of British men, geneticists at University College London suggested that enslavement and apartheid imposed by Saxon invaders was ...

A system of racial segregation imposed by early Anglo-Saxon invaders in England may have massively boosted the breeding of the Germanic interlopers, much to the detriment of the native Celtic race, ...

Long before it became the top exporter of brooding BBC actors or steamed puddings, the United Kingdom was simply a cold, rocky island off the coast of Europe. It wasn’t until the arrival of ...

Italian banker Carmelo Barbagallo, named Nov. 27 by Pope Francis as the new head of the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen KEY WEST, Florida – Back in 1938, ...

As an invitation to explore the wonders of Old English, hand-saex is certainly arresting. The Dictionary of Old English, based at the University of Toronto (doe.utoronto.ca), offered hand-saex as last ...

A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo-Saxons?" New ...