An Irish museum has solved the mystery of a bizarre delivery of two bronze-age axe heads delivered to curators inside a porridge box. The National Museum of Ireland was left mystified after it ...

A man searching for mushrooms in a forest in the Czech Republic found much more than he was looking for when he uncovered an ancient sword and bronze axe, both thought to date from around 3,300 years ...

The National Museum of Ireland recently received a surprising anonymous donation. Now, it needs to figure out where the gift came from—and not just to send a thank-you card. Someone sending a box of ...

The axe head was found by metal detectorist Paul Rowlands A rare Bronze-age axe head, thought to be more than 3,500 years old, has gone on display after being found by a metal detectorist. Paul ...

Archaeologists in Poland recently made an exciting discovery from the Bronze Age. A metal detectorist named Denis Konkol was exploring the forests of Kociewie when he came across five bronze axes ...

The axe was found at Paimio, not far from Turku in the southwest. Because of the acidity of the soil, once buried, organic materials are rarely preserved in Finland. However, this bronze axe, which ...

YOUNG metal detectorist Milly Hardwick strikes it lucky on almost every treasure hunt — and found a “once-in-a-lifetime” Bronze Age axe hoard on her third dig. Milly, 13, has discovered golden coins ...

Milly Hardwick, a 13-year-old from Suffolk, England, was out metal-detecting with her father, when they stumbled upon an artifact which they joked could be an axe. The object turned out to be exactly ...

The ground in Estonia gave up several exciting finds again last year, among them a unique bronze axe, clumps of iron and a treasure of coins. 1. Bronze axe from Läägi Village, Saaremaa A bronze axe ...

Two prehistoric axe heads buried in County Durham as an offering to the Gods in return for fertile land are to be kept in a museum, much to the dismay of the metal detectorist who found them. Experts ...

A 13-year-old girl uncovered a hoard of Bronze Age axes on her third metal-detecting trip. Milly was scouring a field near Royston, Hertfordshire, when she made the find - the first of 65 artefacts ...

British researchers have found 71 prehistoric carvings of axe heads at Stonehenge that date back to the Bronze Age. The discovery — which was found in data from a 3D laser scanner — doubles the number ...