Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1911 — Toys Alike Through Ages. [ARTICLE]

Toys Alike Through Ages.

In the graves of ancient Peru have been discovered spinning tops almost identical in shape with, the ones used at this modern age. In China was made a discovery of a top almost exactly like the one found in Peru, and scientists are at a loss to understand how these little articles could have been so much alike, and yet be found in centuries so far apart. It has been estimated that toys are at least 3,000 years of age. Old Egyptian toys have been found which show that they were arranged on wheels, much as the toys of today are made. Toys, very much alike in all particulars, have been discovered in all parts of the globe, and their age dates back into the thousands of years.