The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia will meet on Monday in Siem Reap, after the general elections in Cambodia on Sunday, to try to resolve the standoff at Preah Vihear temple. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen campaigned on the listing of the temple as a UNESCO World Heritage site.   This article on the history of the border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand is the most informative yet.

A woman’s 2,600-year-old tomb unearthed on the eastern coast of Italy contained more than 650 artifacts obtained from Sicily and southern Italy, Egypt, Rhodes, Greece, and the Middle East. “This discovery fills in a big gap in our knowledge and helps define the role this area played in past centuries,” said Giuliano de Marinis, Archaeology Superintendent for the Marche region.  

The skeleton of a dog accompanied by a note claiming the bones were from the Roman era turned up in the donations pile at St. Barnabas Hospice in Lincolnshire, England. “Caesar,” as he has been nicknamed, was turned over to the local museum.  

Renovations of a medieval church in northeast England revealed an intact bottle carrying a message. The note had been written in 1866, when the building had first been restored, and gave details of what work had been done. Details of the new restorations were added to the bottle, which was then replaced in the building’s foundation.  

On this day in 1911, Hiram Bingham reached Machu Picchu. Learn the basics of his work in Peru in this question-and-answer session from Wired.

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.