New cruise ships and new ways to experience favorite destinations top our list of 2026's best family vacation ideas.

Archaeologists confirm the existence of medieval ship after the unprecedented discovery of a well-preserved cog in Denmark.

The Indian Navy's newest ship is not a combat beast but a spectacular all-wood sailing yacht that recreates ancient designs ...

The Seine is a modest little river when it comes to navigable length: so short that river cruises take just a week and usually sail round-trip from Paris. It is however big on history, art and pretty ...

New research suggests indicates that Scandinavia's oldest known example of a wooden plank boat may have sailed to attack the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By 1943, the outlook for an Allied ...

The mist lifts across the steel-blue Baltic Sea, revealing the limestone coastline of Gotland – just as it would have appeared to the Vikings more than a millennium ago. But unlike those ancient ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included the site where a young George Washington stopped a friendly fire incident, the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Many of the passengers who traveled ...

More than a century after Norway's Gokstad ship burial was first excavated, scientists are examining the remains of the VIking chieftain buried inside and learning the truth about how he lived and ...

An impressive ax head is one of hundreds of Viking artifacts found during excavations under the streets of Dublin. When Irish archaeologists working under Dublin’s South Great George’s Street just ...