England was never as isolated as many history books once suggested. New research shows that people moved into and across England steadily for centuries, arriving from places as distant as the ...

Researchers traced the roots of population movements to England during the early medieval period, from the end of Roman rule ...

Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places and at different rates, a study finds.

Learn how ancient DNA and tooth enamel are rewriting England’s medieval history and showing connections between climate ...

New research shows England’s early population moved steadily from Mediterranean and Arctic regions, challenging ideas of ...

Archaeologists have discovered a monumental early medieval cemetery that could be linked to a Christian saint. The burial ground was uncovered during excavations conducted as part of an improvement ...

The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries AD. While acidic sandy soils have dissolved the bones, the excavators have ...

Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period in Europe. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of experts ...

Sometime around 660 CE, silver coinage replaced gold as the dominant form of currency in northwest Europe. But what was the source of all that silver? According to a recent paper published in the ...

Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7 th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne’s Francia a century later, new tests reveal ...