A metal detectorist in Poland has found five Bronze Age axes buried in a forest. Archaeologists suggest that the artifacts may have been used to either chop wood or for cult purposes. Denis Konkol was ...

When the National Museum of Ireland received a parcel containing two ancient axe heads in June, its researchers were stumped. Besides an unsigned note from an anonymous sender, the artifacts came with ...

The sender carefully secured the ax heads inside a cardboard flapjack box. National Museum of Ireland An Irish museum recently received a strange parcel: two 4,000-year-old ax heads, carefully packed ...

KOCIEWIE, POLAND—According to a Live Science report, a metal detectorist has discovered a cache of five 3,500-year-old axes in northern Poland’s Starogard Forest District. Piotr Klimaszewski of Poland ...

The 13-year-old discovered the cache on her third metal-detecting outing. Courtesy of Colin Hardwick Milly Hardwick was searching for buried treasure in a field in Hertfordshire, England, when her ...

A Scottish metal detectorist unearthed a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age axe head in three pieces, reuniting the fragments after days of searching. Experts believe the axe head, found in Aberdeenshire, ...

The story “Earliest evidence of wood buildings” ends by saying “we might need to rethink our labelling of the Stone Age”, that it was maybe “more of a wood age” (30 September, p 14). My understanding ...