A wooden toy discovered during an excavation of an Iron Age site in central Norway hints that 1,000 years ago, a child may have imagined ferocious Viking battles by playing with a carved replica of a ...

Which toy boat is best? Boats are a classic play item for children’s entertainment and games. Before buying a toy boat, it’s important to think about the toy’s materials and developmental value. Take ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Royal Navy may not be as key to Britain's national identity as it once was but Toy Boats, an exhibition opening ...

A thousand-year-old toy boat from an abandoned water well gives archaeologists tantalizing clues about the culture that produced the object. A thousand years ago, for reasons we will never know, the ...

COLLECTION. LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE IS A PLACE THAT FRED CLAWSON AND HIS FAMILY HAVE CALLED HOME FOR MANY YEARS. THEY HAVE OWNED AND OPERATED PROCTORS COTTAGES AT PAUGUS BAY SINCE 1999, AND THEY CHERISH ...

Toy boats have been popular for hundreds of years. There were carved wooden sail boats, tin models of paddle-wheel boats, ocean liners and military fleets made by the 19th century. By the 20th century ...

HMS Terrible, Dreadnought, Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern, the Hawk speedboat: some of the most impressive vessels Europe has ever seen are currently on show at the National Maritime Museum in ...

A thousand years ago, for reasons we will never know, the residents of a tiny farmstead on the coast of central Norway filled an old well with dirt. Maybe the water dried up, or maybe it became foul.

In 2015, Florida State University Professor of Oceanography William Landing and a team of environmental scientists boarded a research vessel and sailed north into the frigid, ice-sheathed waters of ...