At least two soldiers have died today in an exchange of rockets and gunfire over a disputed patch of land near the Preah Vihear temple in Cambodia. The political and military crisis between Thailand and Cambodia began when the temple was named a World Heritage site last summer.

In Greece, an employee of the Archaeological Museum of Dion and another person thought to be his accomplice are suspected of illegally offering more than 200 artifacts for sale.  

Tuberculosis has been identified in the 9,000-year-old bones of a mother and infant found buried in a submerged village off Israel’s coast. “The strain we have found as far as we can tell is identical to some of the bacteria that are going around infecting people today,” said Helen Donoghue of University College, London.  

In the Philippines, archaeologists uncovered a gold death mask, large ceramic items, and a dagger that had been buried with a Cebu chieftain. “This is one of the most significant finds in Cebu, so far,” said Boomboom Miano, a curator of the Fort San Pedro Museum.  

Anthropologist John Lukacs of the University of Oregon has some new ideas about why hunter-gatherer women and women in agricultural societies tended to have poor dental health compared to men.  

A 3,000-year-old relief depicting a bearded, winged man wearing a headband was unearthed at Rabat Tepe in Iran.  

Figurines of wig-wearing musicians were uncovered in a 1,500-year-old tomb in central China.  

Are you planning a visit to the Meadowcroft Rockshelter? Here’s what you’ll need to know.

DNA tests on hairs collected in east India have shown that the hairs did not drop from a yeti after all, but from a Himalayan Goral, a type of goat. “Perhaps we have a more modest discovery – extending the known range of the goral rather than confirming the existence of the lowland yeti,” said Ian Redmond, a senior consultant for the UN’s Great Ape Survival Project.

The skeletons of 55 people, silk clothing with gold thread, and 1,700-year-old jewelry were discovered in Ephesus. Austrian archaeologist Sabine Ladstatter said she was surprised to find precious items, since Ephesus has been plundered throughout history.

A Roman palace dating between the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. has been uncovered in the ancient city of Edessa, in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey. “The tesserae used for the mosaics of this palace are very small, which shows that the workmanship of the mosaics was very good. This shows that the palace belonged to an important administrator of the Eastern Roman Empire,” said archaeologist Mehmet Önal.  

A sixth-century A.D. tomb was found within a room of a house excavated in Kaukana, Sicily. The tomb held the remains of a woman who had been buried first, and a child who had been added later. Christian and pagan symbols were found in the grave and the house.  

Did Norsemen bring Christianity to northern Scotland before the arrival of Saint Columba in 536 A.D.?  

Prehistoric river channels once fed by monsoons have been spotted in the Sahara with satellite radar. Could Homo sapiens have followed those rivers north out of Africa?  

More than 1,000 historic graves were excavated in Tucson, Arizona, to clear the way for a public building project. Known as the National Cemetery, it came into use in 1862, and as many as 2,000 people had been buried there.  

Last spring, the Navy demonstrated its autonomous undersea vehicles carrying remote sensing equipment in Narragansett Bay, giving Rhode Island’s underwater archaeologists a look at the Revolutionary War artifacts buried under the silt. “The only thing holding underwater archaeology back is that when you bring an artifact up, you need a place to keep it and preserve it,” said Charlotte Taylor, an archaeologist with the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission.  

Methamphetamine addicts are known by law enforcement officials for looting American Indian sites of points and pots. This article describes the connection between the drug and the obsessive digging.  

If you took the Indiana Jones trivia quiz listed last week, you know that Dan Akroyd made a cameo appearance in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The actor has now put his name on “Crystal Head Vodka,” which comes in a skull-shaped bottle.