In 927, Athelstan became the first king to rule over all of England — and it hadn't been an easy journey. Though he was the ...

and teaches historians about Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Some items in the hoard originated in Asia, and expose trade and connections at the time political entities in the modern-day United Kingdom were ...

But King Offa still overshadows all, having dominated the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for the last decades of the 8th century and having bequeathed us, most probably, the eponymous dyke.

While guidebooks and tour buses often direct visitors to the quaint villages perched above Cirencester in the Cotswolds, ...

A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...