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 ...

Archaeologists reveal that an ordinary house in Bosham was the private headquarters of King Harold II, which changes local ...

BHP Group offered around £40 billion ($53 billion) in its now-aborted attempt to acquire Anglo American Plc, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The commodities giant bid about £34 per ...

(Bloomberg) --BHP Group has walked away from a fresh takeover approach for Anglo American Plc, ending an unexpected and short-lived attempt by the world’s largest miner to thwart a planned tie-up ...

BHP BHP-0.13%decrease; red down pointing triangle Group said it wouldn’t pursue a takeover of Anglo American AAL 0.79%increase; green up pointing triangle following new talks, shutting the door on a ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. London | BHP has made a fresh takeover approach to Anglo American in a move to disrupt the London-listed miner’s combination with ...

She was born into a Viking noble family, inherited vast estates in East Anglia, and became the lifelong partner of the man who would become the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. The Church refused to ...

In a recent Daily Maverick opinion piece, Mmusi Maimane warned that the quiet replacement of the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) board signals a deep crisis in governance and public accountability ...

The skull shapes of ancient Anglo-Saxons have revealed that they were bonded not so much by genetic heritage as their shared language and culture. What they farmed and how they fought is well ...

Could this Anglo-Saxon cemetery, discovered in the shadow of Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, contain the remains of the old ruling family of Bebbanburg? 91 individual skeletons were excavated at ...

The people of England got their name from the Angles, who, along with the Saxons, invaded in the early- to mid-5th century AD, after the Roman Empire began to groan under the weight of barbarian ...