The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia will meet on Monday in Siem Reap, after the general elections in Cambodia on Sunday, to try to resolve the standoff at Preah Vihear temple. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen campaigned on the listing of the temple as a UNESCO World Heritage site.   This article on the history of the border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand is the most informative yet.

A woman’s 2,600-year-old tomb unearthed on the eastern coast of Italy contained more than 650 artifacts obtained from Sicily and southern Italy, Egypt, Rhodes, Greece, and the Middle East. “This discovery fills in a big gap in our knowledge and helps define the role this area played in past centuries,” said Giuliano de Marinis, Archaeology Superintendent for the Marche region.  

The skeleton of a dog accompanied by a note claiming the bones were from the Roman era turned up in the donations pile at St. Barnabas Hospice in Lincolnshire, England. “Caesar,” as he has been nicknamed, was turned over to the local museum.  

Renovations of a medieval church in northeast England revealed an intact bottle carrying a message. The note had been written in 1866, when the building had first been restored, and gave details of what work had been done. Details of the new restorations were added to the bottle, which was then replaced in the building’s foundation.  

On this day in 1911, Hiram Bingham reached Machu Picchu. Learn the basics of his work in Peru in this question-and-answer session from Wired.

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