A family claiming to have found millions of dollars in buried treasure in Mexico is now under criminal investigation. Federal authorities suspect the $100 bills had been buried since the 1970s and 1980s, and that the family may have stumbled upon a cache of drug money.

A statue of Lord Narayanan and his consort Lakshmi was discovered in a dry riverbed in southern India. The statue was moved by representatives from the state government, but residents of two nearby villages are claiming it as their own.  

In the fourteenth century B.C., a Canaanite queen wrote to the Pharaoh Akhenaten, asking for protection from a marauding group known as the Apiru. Her letters, written on clay tablets, were discovered in Tel Amarna, Egypt. Israeli scholars are linking the queen’s letters to Tel Beit Shemesh, where a battle took place before the city was burned and captured.  

A piece of eighteenth-century French pottery was found at the homestead of Louis Blanchette, who arrived in St. Charles, Missouri, in 1769. “It’s what I wanted to find, and I’m tickled,” said archaeologist Steve Dasovich.  

“Beware of Greeks building museums,” quips this article from Bloomberg on the new Acropolis Museum in Athens and the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum. “The British Museum has thousands of pieces of Greek treasure on display. We only want back the Parthenon Marbles,” added Athens museum director Dimitris Pandermalis.  

Foreign ministers from Thailand and Cambodia met in Siem Reap today to try to resolve the dispute over border lands near the Preah Vihear temple. “We have discussed many points but we have not reached a solution yet,” Cambodian minister Hor Namhong said.

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