The Mystery of the Bronze Age Ax Heads Mailed Anonymously to an Irish Museum Has Been Solved

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Earlier this year, the National Museum of Ireland received a package containing two Bronze Age ax heads inside a pancake box. Hoping to learn more about the artifacts, museum officials urged the anonymous sender to come forward.

Now, several months later, the mystery has been solved: The 4,000-year-old artifacts had been unearthed in a field in Westmeath, a county in central Ireland

The field’s owner is a farmer named Thomas Dunne, who didn’t learn about the buzz surrounding the artifacts until “after it had already been in the news for a week,” as he tells the Westmeath Examiner’s Robert Kindregan.

The Mystery of the Bronze Age Ax Heads Mailed Anonymously to an Irish Museum Has Been Solved | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com)