As Easter approached I began to see a number of Ishtar equals Easter memes roll across my Facebook feed, as friends or acquaintances of mine with pagan leanings decided to spill the hidden truth on ...

About this time of year one hears a lot of commentary about the festival of Easter, wherein it is asserted to be a Christian reframing of some older pagan festival. This is nonsense, but the belief is ...

The goddess Ostara -- sometimes called Eostre -- is the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, resurrection, rebirth and the maiden aspect of the Three-Fold Goddess (maiden, mother and crone), explains the ...

Archaeologists have provided important new evidence to answer the question 'who exactly were the Anglo-Saxons?' New findings based on studying skeletal remains clearly indicates the Anglo-Saxons were ...

British folklore tells the story of twin brothers Hengist and Horsa, who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. But were ...

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously depicts William the Conqueror's victory over the so-called Anglo-Saxons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons People in the United States and Great Britain ...

A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo-Saxons?" New ...