As America get ready to mark its 250th birthday, we take a look at the time the British troops raided Bergen County towns.

What it is: A decorated Anglo-Saxon metal helmet with a faceplate Where it is from: Woodbridge, Suffolk, England When it was made: Circa A.D. 600 to 625 Related: Roman scutum: An 1,800-year-old shield ...

Readers are inclined to forgive a range of sins when a writer writes beautifully, as Alice Albinia does in “The Britannias,” a bewitching book of “voyage tales” from “the dim antechambers of British ...

What it tells us about the past: This helmet was discovered in pieces in an early-medieval ship burial at the archaeological site of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, in the late 1930s. On display at ...