Czech archaeologists have rediscovered a Meroe-period temple that had been lost to the desert sands of Sudan in the nineteenth century.

Riddles written in the ancient Akkadian language have been translated from a copy of a 3,500-year-old clay tablet from southern Mesopotamia by Nathan Wasserman of Hebrew University, and Michael Streck of the Altorientalisches Institut at Universität Leipzig. Some of the riddles are political, some are crude, and some rely on metaphors.

In northern Greece, a priest and his assistant were arrested for digging within the Church of the Prophet Elijah. Treasure hunting has become more widespread in Greece since the financial crisis began.

A megalithic hill fort in Northern Ireland is being cleared of trees and bushes. “It occupies a site the size of four football pitches and sits in a very strategic position in the Quoile Marshes, because, in the past especially, it must have been surrounded by water at least part of the year,” said archaeologist Ken Neill.

The Princeton University Art Museum has returned six artifacts to Italy.

“What modern people are doing with online social networks is what we’ve always done—not just before Facebook, but before agriculture,” said James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego. By studying the Hadza, who live as hunter gatherers in Tanzania, Fowler and Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School found that social networks could have contributed to the evolution of cooperation.

A 7,500-year-old fishing trap has been unearthed near Moscow, along with hooks, harpoons, weights, floats, needles for nets, and knives made of moose ribs. The long term, Mesolithic inhabitants of the site fished during the spring and early summer and hunted during summer and winter.

Two men were arrested for treasure hunting in Lapu-Lapu City in the Philippines. They claimed that the dig had been paid for by a British national.

The Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command, based at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, works to bring home of all 84,000 members of military service who went missing during war or military action. This article from CNN briefly describes the process of looking for and identifying the remains of the lost.