Two 4,000-year-old ax heads were anonymously mailed to an Irish museum. According to the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), the package was received in late June. The sender left an unsigned note in ...

National Museum of Ireland issues appeal after anonymously receiving Bronze Age axheads The axheads, which date back to around 2000 BC, were discovered in the Westmeath area using a metal detector ...

A Bronze Age tomb was thought to have been destroyed over 170 years. As part of an effort to map Ireland's ancient tombs, a researcher went looking for it.

Upon study, the museum’s experts have determined the axe heads date to the Early Bronze Age, around 2150 to 2000 B.C.E., and could be of significance in illuminating Ireland’s ancient past.

The flat metal tools date to between 2150 and 2000 B.C.E., a few hundred years after the early Bronze Age began in Ireland.

Gibbons thinks the walls were built during Ireland's Bronze Age, probably between 1100 B.C. and 900 B.C., because of their similarity to ramparts built around a Bronze Age fortress at Lough Fee ...

And it was far, far older than 1785. Inside were two bronze axe heads “carefully packed using foam cut-outs and cardboard,” the National Museum of Ireland stated in a press release.

COUNTY KERRY, IRELAND—Traces of a 4,000-year-old tomb thought to have been destroyed in the nineteenth century have been found on southern Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula by folklorist Billy Mag ...