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. 

A 12,000-year-old deer antler carved into the shape of a bird is said to be the oldest known carving in China.

In South Korea, a tip from a former Marine led authorities to a mass grave of soldiers killed in the Korean War. “They are believed to be either North or South Korean troops,” said an official from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Scientists will try to identify the remains at a lab in Seoul.  

The bones of as many as 30 people were uncovered during construction work in Ireland. The site may have been a cemetery for an abbey in the sixteenth century.  

Seven Neolithic cave paintings in the Tadrart Acacus area of the Libyan Sahara were vandalized with spray paint. A former tour guide has been accused of the crime.  

Looters are targeting prehistoric sites on private land in northeastern Arkansas. “It’s a felony,” said Julie Morrow of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey. Looting is often associated with other crimes, including methamphetamine use, theft of farm equipment, and vandalism.  

A medieval marketplace has been unearthed from Cathedral Square in Peterborough, England. Archaeologists have found its limestone surfaces, streets, gutters, pottery, leather scraps, animal bones, and part of a bronze cauldron.  

A reporter from the Houston Chronicle spoke with family members of the late archaeologist Felipe Solis Olguin, director of the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology.