Here’s an update on the Cambodia-Thailand border dispute near the ancient Hindu Preah Vihear temple. The recent tensions began when former Thai foreign minister Noppandon Pattama decided to support Cambodia’s bid to make the temple a UNESCO World Heritage site. A mosaic floor uncovered by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s is no longer there, […]

German researchers have discovered the hippodrome of Olympia just east of the stadium, using geomagnetic mapping and georadar. It had been thought that the racetrack disappeared in floods during the Middle Ages, and was only known through the writings of Pausanias, who visited Olympia in the second century A.D. Thai protesters who want to reclaim […]