The United Nations Security Council has included the build-up of Cambodian and Thai troops around Preah Vihear temple on the emergency agenda for tomorrow’s meeting. The World Court ruled in 1962 that the temple belongs to Cambodia.   This article offers a little information on the history of the border dispute between the two countries.

More than 2,000 sets of human remains have been recovered from mass graves in Spain’s San Rafael Cemetery. It is thought that more than 4,000 people were killed by fascist troops there between 1936 and 1951.  

An 800-year-old footprint was unearthed in Winnipeg, Canada. Pottery, fish bones, and arrowheads were also found.  

Iraq’s government wants to boost international tourism to its archaeological sites, but as the online edition of the Lonely Planet travel guide states, “Its turbulent and extreme domestic situation makes Iraq one of the least desirable places in the world to be.”  

Visit the new Acropolis Museum in Athens with British reporter Mark Hodson.  

The story of the discovery of the hippodrome at Olympia has been picked up by Reuters. The racecourse was covered with silt from the Alfeios River, and was located by a team from the German Archaeological Institute in Athens using modern geomagnetic methods.  

Bones, pottery, and a well for drinking water were uncovered by construction workers in St. Augustine, Florida.  

The base of a fortified tower typical of Crusader-period castles was found in Mdina, Malta. The structure is thought to have been dismantled between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries by the Order of St. John.

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