A rare millefiori dish discovered alongside the cremated remains of a wealthy Roman Londoner has been reassembled. “We occasionally get tiny fragments of millefiori, but the opportunity to work on a whole artifact of this nature is extraordinary,” said Liz Goodman, an archaeology conservator at the Museum of London.  More photographs of the bowl are shown with this article.

Did the Indus Valley civilization have a written language? Asia Times Online breaks down the recent debate featured in Science.  

In Fishkill, New York, archaeologists have found hundreds of graves that probably hold the remains of soldiers who died during the Revolutionary War.  

While out diving for crayfish off the coast of Australia’s Rottnest Island, three friends stumbled upon the scuttled wreck of the Fremantle, a steam bucket dredge that dug out the city of Fremantle’s harbor in the 1890s.  

The new Acropolis Museum will open on June 20, according to Greek Culture Minister Antonis Samaras.  

The prison sentence for a book collector who stole pages from rare texts in the British Library and the Bodleian Library has been cut in half.  

Representatives from Cambodia and Thailand have not been able to agree to a plan to pull back their troops from disputed land near the Preah Vihear Temple. Trouble erupted last year when the eleventh-century temple was named a World Heritage site. At least seven people have died in the clash.  

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has published its list of the 11 most endangered historic places in America. 

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