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Someone Anonymously Mailed Two Bronze Age Axes to a Museum in Ireland
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 in a repurposed flapjack box and mailed by an anonymous …