The University of Bristol announced Wednesday the recent discovery of what may be the remains of the Saxon Princess Eadgyth, (pronounced “Edith”) possibly the oldest member of the English royal family who's remains have survived.

Armor and jewels believed to have been stripped from men killed in battle 1,400 years ago were declared a treasure trove Thursday by a British coroner. The ruling by South Staffordshire Coroner Andrew Haigh means the Staffordshire Hoard can be sold to a British museum, with the proceeds to be divided between the man who found the treasure and the farmer who owns the field where it was discovered, The Times of London reported. The find of 1,500 individual objects is the largest Anglo-Saxon hoard to date, archaeologists say, with more gold than the Sutton Hoo ship burial.

Historians attending a conference in England say the Vikings that first settled in Britain and Ireland may have been better neighbors than previously thought. Experts at the three-day University of Cambridge conference, which began Friday, said recent evidence suggests that many of the Norse Vikings who arrived in Britain and Ireland starting about 1,200 years ago lived in peace with Anglo-Saxons and Celts and often traded ideas with the natives, The Times of London reported Friday. The latest evidence does not point to a simple opposition between 'Vikings' and 'natives', said Fiona Edmonds, of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the university.

LONDON (Reuters) - Anglo-Saxon invaders set up an apartheid-like society in Britain between the 5th and 7th centuries and out-breed the natives, leaving modern Britons with a disproportionately large percentage of their genes.

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