Forty years ago, the International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled that the temple of Preah Vihear and the land surrounding it belonged to Cambodia. Cambodian officials have now asked that ruling to be clarified in the face of renewed fighting in its border dispute with Thailand. 

Part of a 2,000-year-old Roman ship was uncovered during bridge construction near Italy’s ancient port of Ostia Antica. “The restoration work is very delicate as we have to continually cover the boat with water to prevent the wood drying out,” said archaeology official Anna Maria Moretti. 

Connecticut State Archaeologist Nicholas F. Bellantoni and the Ossining Historical Society in New York plan to exhume the remains of the Leather Man, a late-nineteenth-century figure who continuously hiked a loop between the Hudson and Connecticut rivers for six years while wearing a 60-pound suit made of leather. The researchers want to try to identify the Leather Man and then move his remains to another location in Ossining’s Sparta Cemetery. 

England’s only medieval clock tower has been repaired and renovated. “The consensus of opinion is that the merchants of the town got together [to build it because] they were fed up of being ruled by the abbey. They [people at the abbey] controlled the clock and rumor goes that they would stick another ten minutes or half an hour on the time, just so that people working in the fields worked a bit longer if it was a nice evening. So it was put up in defiance of the abbey really,” said Councilor Shelia Burton of St. Albans District Council.

If you weren’t able to attend the Archaeological Institute of America’s Gala on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal can fill you in on all the details of the guests, food, and entertainment.   

The remains of a young woman who was stabbed in the back of the head with a Roman sword have been unearthed in Kent, England. “It shows how all invading armies act the same throughout history. One can only imagine what trauma this poor girl had to suffer before she was killed,” said contract archaeologist Paul Wilkinson. 

A 4,000-year-old statuette has been returned to Egypt by Mexico’s National Institute of Archaeology and History. Customs agents found the artifact in 2006. 

The Cyprus Archaeological Digitization Program will be completed soon. It will include 1,300 monuments from around the country, and 5,000 artifacts from the Paphos Museum. Members of the public can apply for permission for full access to the data. 

Will the Smithsonian Institution host the exhibition, “Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds,” which features artifacts retrieved by a treasure hunter? James Delgado of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has suggested that the Smithsonian use the situation to educate the public about the consequences of the commercialization of underwater heritage. A final decision is expected next month.