The two Early Bronze Age axe heads, dating from around 2150-2000 BC, were sent anonymously to the National Museum of Ireland at the end of June. Photograph: National Museum of Ireland
Where did those 4,000 year old axe heads come from?! The National Museum of Ireland had so many questions about this thoughtfully wrapped “gift” and chariot pulled by cassowaries’ post has the answers!
18th century school workbook doodle via The Museum of English Rural Life
I think what I like best is that it reminds me of my own school maths book, except my handwriting was rubbish and the doodles were of my scruffy Jack Russell rather than sporty rabbit chasing dogs.
Richard Beale was my great great great grandfather ... It's been very weird to see my ancestor's doodles going viral: Mefi's own intensitymultiply on encountering the MERL's popular twitter thread about an 18th century teen's mathematics workbook
©REX Photo credit: Everett Collection/REX Stars Wearing The Pink Panther 1993
It's like some 1970s middle class couple one day decided, "Hey honey, why don't we do some criming and heisting? Wouldn't that be fun?" — jonp72
The Art of the Steal: "They were a quiet couple that kept to themselves"; running the jewels (HT: gwint); the world's top art forgery detective; hunting the con queen of Hollywood; how to steal a shark, baby; how to steal it all.
Laputa: Castle in the Sky / 天空の城ラピュタ（バルス後） by Tatsuya Tanaka
Recently on Mefi, people and places around the world, enchanting, mysterious and magnetic:
World Jollof Rice Day, you say? Jollof rice is a traditional West African dish, but not a humble one
From the Persian for "eyebrow," Ebru (paper marbling) has a long tradition in Turkey
The villagers of Kannauj have inherited a remarkable skill: They can capture the scent of rain
Au Revoir, Mogadishu Vol. 1 — Songs From Before The War: '70s and '80s Somali sound
Since April 20, 2011, Japanese artist Tatsuya Tanaka has created tiny dioramas with common household objects as landscape for tiny people, one every day
Chiara Vigo is the last master of weaving the sea-silk cloth bysso and showcases her art at Museo del Bisso in Sant'Antioco, Sardinia
Mutter Museum by John H. Kim (cc by)
"What other unconventional places in the world feature an equivalent mix of amazement, craziness and depth?"
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