The sovereign was the last Anglo-Saxon king of the House of Wessex, having taken over from the Dane Harthacnut. Before him ...

Queen Elizabeth II made an historic visit to the Vatican just months after Pope Francis was elected but this meeting between ...

But when Harthacnut died after a short reign in 1042, the English selected Harthacnut's Anglo-Saxon half-brother, Edward the Confessor, as king instead. He died in 1066, and we’re all very ...

In 1269 the remains of Edward the Confessor, England’s only canonized ... were murdered by their uncle Richard III. Opening the tomb of King John (d. 1216) might tell us if the villain of ...

His close predecessor, King Edward the Confessor, is also said to have been closely associated with the manor of Havering. The Saxon King is now thought to be one of Harold Hill's two surviving ...

Their children included Edward the Confessor, future king of England. Not including the brief period ... There he remained until the tomb and monument were destroyed, along with the cathedral, in the ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

Archaeologists excavating at Saqqara Necropolis found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a poorly known prince with a unique fake door, ...

Experts believe they have uncovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The legendary pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in 1922, filled with thousands of ...

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