The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldest alphabet; hidden text in Blue Qur’an; natural selection in ancient DNA; and forgotten Bermuda settlement.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Precise location of ancient Islamic battle; early Maya salt production in Belize; manual dexterity in australopithecines; and earlier date for Greek Renaissance.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform; DNA of Pompeii body casts; Ice Age stone tablets picturing fishing nets; and child sacrifice in Peru.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Temple of Poseidon in Greece; Polynesians' southernmost voyage; Maya urbanism in Campeche; and Bronze Age settlement at Saudi oasis.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Sanctuary at Minoan palace; wheel development in Carpathian Mountains; forgotten historic settlement in Amazonia; and high-altitude urban center along Silk Road.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Columbus’ DNA points to Jewish heritage; burial chamber in Petra; newly found Moche murals in Peru; and intact Viking skeletons in Denmark.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Shell-ring villages in Southeastern US; early jade trade in China; early Neolithic longhouse in Poland; and Scythian-like horse sacrifice in southern Siberian tomb.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Large Viking cemetery; clay tablets returned to Iran; walrus ivory points to Norse contact with Indigenous people; and genomic continuity in South Africa.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: AI finds more Nazca lines; early sweet potato in New Zealand; female bias in Neolithic Spain; and world’s oldest cheese in Tarim Basin.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: America’s oldest tombstone; extinct animal in South African rock art; identity of man interred in Notre-Dame; and “The Lion of Venice” origin revealed.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA reveals 50,000 years of Neanderthal genetic isolation; No self-inflicted depopulation of Easter Island; Iberian violent Steppe invasion disputed; and Great Lakes region Clovis recurring campsite discovered.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Stonehenge Altar Stone Orkney-origin ruled out; Roman coins hidden from pirates?; Climate impacts on European human dispersal; and New York enslaved peoples’ cemetery memorialized.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Samurai sword in Germany; violent death of Inca child sacrifice; children’s cemetery in Norway; and US WWII pilot identified in Sicily.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early Peru temple burials; “planted spear” hypothesis for megafauna hunters; cemetery beneath Chinese zoo; and Neolithic female figurine in Turkey.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Scotland origin for Stonehenge Altar Stone; giant Maya stone glyph; Neanderthals in southern Pyrenees; and early dates for West Papua cave.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New fossils of the Flores Hobbit; Cahokia abandonment study; possible calendar inscription at Göbekli Tepe; and Chinese bone needle workshop.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Iron Age cremations in Germany; early Williamsburg home; Chinese Bronze Age human sacrifice; and analysis of “Screaming Woman” mummy.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Underwater inscriptions in Egypt; early armadillo-eating South Americans; Neolithic stone structures in Saudi Arabia; and earliest European hominins in Spain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Caligula’s garden; warning in Hittite royal seal; plant remains and East African farming; and very old Peruvian temple and theater.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Denisovans on the Tibetan plateau; newly discovered rock art in Venezuela; wooden artifacts show great age for continuing Aboriginal ritual; and tomb in France helps explain modern European genome.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Korean royal tomb; LiDAR survey of Yucatan Maya sites; 21st century science applied to Antikythera Mechanism; and Neanderthal child with Down Syndrome.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Stone catapult balls in England; intact bottles of preserves at Mount Vernon; human blood in West African plaster; and Celtic human remains with collapsed bridge in Switzerland.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age city in Syria; Indigenous American glass beads; survivors of Vesuvius; and world’s oldest wooden sculpture.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Monglian cauldrons and blood sausage; female warrior monk in Spain; huge South American rock art; and new Seahenge interpretation.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient tablet records first Anatolian company; cancer surgery in ancient Egypt; inequality study examines Central European burial mounds; and ceremonial offerings in ancient Mexico City temple.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pyrenees village torched by Hannibal; elephant hunting in central Chile; Medieval horses shipped across the Baltic Sea; and experimental study of Greek Bronze Age armor.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman town lasted longer; modern viruses in Neanderthals; British stone circle may be older; and pair buried in embrace not lovers.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman shipwreck with fish sauce; linguistic analysis posits four early American migrations; new precision for Jerusalem’s early history; and leprosy and squirrels in Medieval England.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Soundscapes in Chaco Canyon; ritual plant traces beneath Maya ball court; Neanderthal face reconstructed; and plant-based diet for Paleolithic North Africans.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Avar DNA study; cherries unearthed at Mount Vernon; new cursus monuments in Ireland; and lunar alignment study at Stonehenge.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: left palate prosthesis in Poland; early Aboriginal Australian pottery; Teotihuacan earthquakes; and genomic study shows ancient Blackfoot origins.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New Pompeii frescoes; ancient city in Tonga; African-American log house excavation in Virginia; and clay seal bearing the name Shiraz.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Prehistoric camp on New Mexico Air Force base; Paleolithic wooden tools in Germany; chicken eggs in Central Asia; and purported early sandstone sculpture in South Africa.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Horse cemetery in London; Iranian Plateau as stopover for migrating humans; violence and crisis in ancient Peru; and island time capsule in Australia.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly documented Aztec codices; food traces evidence Easter Island contact with South America; Britain’s Pompeii; and advanced Neolithic boats in Italy.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Clay tablet at Hittite site; huge India DNA study; mass grave in Nuremberg; and oldest bead in Western Hemisphere.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wrecked slaver ships in the Bahamas; burial cave in Spain with suggestion of Neanderthals; Ukraine tools dated to 1.4 million years ago; and astrolabe from medieval Spain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Medieval French abbey totally excavated; Texas obsidian blade attributed to Coronado expedition; French hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding; and plants used in Philistine temples.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Danish gold ring hints at royalty; Neanderthal adhesive grips; early colonial armor in Maryland; and DNA of mummies in far western China.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Baltic Sea Mesolithic megastructure; very old Patagonian pictographs; Danish bog body violently smashed; and dating supports independent invention of Easter Island script.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Meteoritic iron in Spanish Bronze Age hoard; poisonous seeds in Roman-age bone vial from Holland; ancient DNA in Denmark points to two sudden population replacements; and early human occupation of Amazon rainforest caves.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Modern humans early in central Germany; footprints on Moroccan beach; jade mosaic mask in royal Maya tomb; and cold periods and plagues in Roman Empire.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ishtar Gate firmly dated by archaeomagnetism; Roman dodecahedron in England; Peruvian hunters depended on plants; and identifying the royal tombs of Macedon.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Tooth decay in the Mesolithic; Medieval gauntlet in Switzerland; genetic origins of western Europeans; and woolly mammoths and early people in Alaska.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rock-cut tombs in Egypt; huge Bronze Age rampart in Saudi Arabia; hidden cities in the Amazon; and Medieval grave of tall Swede with long sword.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Chalk figure on hillside in England; palace in central China; Maya burial cave in Tulum; and bronze buckles in central Europe.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Horse culture in Patagonia; vegetarian diet in early European mega-sites; early settlement of northwest Australia continental shelf; and figurines in Pompeii.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New geoglyph discoveries in Peru; proof of Viking dentistry; dental study of Native Americans; and DNA of Sarmatian man in Britain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wooden saddle in Mongolian tomb; Pompeiian bakery reflects cruel treatment; extensive rock art in Mesa Verde area; and Medieval curse tablet in Germany.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Sophistication of the Menga Dolmen in Spain; DNA of Slavic migration; world’s oldest fortress in Siberia; and unusual Wari Empire complex.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Skeletal study of medieval England common folk; Mesolithis shaman and infant burial in Germany; ancient Maya reservoir water purified by plants; and carved trees in Aboriginal Australia.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 2000 clay stamps in Roman archive; Egyptian baboon DNA points to Punt; DNA evidences early migration to California; and advanced hydraulic structure in Sumeria.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Tools revealed by melting British Columbia ice; southwest Norway site evidences early agriculture; lion mosaic in northwestern Turkey; and study of Australian Aboriginal agriculture.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Crimean DNA linked to early modern human in western Europe; headless skeletons in China; trove of coins off coast of Sardinia; and architecture connects Maya cities of Edzná and Chichén Itzá.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Complex mixture in ancient Egyptian mug; true identity of El Tigre; shipwreck exemplifies China’s Maritime Silk Road; and Neolithic warfare in Spain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Chinese stone grenades; Mexican painted snake head; Acheulean hand axe in Medieval painting; and ancient hydraulic engineering in the Sahara.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Independent Copper Age settlements in Spain; Neanderthal fire in Portuguese cave; older dates for Puerto Rican cave art; and AI used to decipher carbonized Roman scrolls.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Chinese workshop; pre-Viking Sami site in Norway; Four Corners potato; and Mithras temple in SE Anatolia.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hidden Amazonian structures; effects of prehistoric cosmic airburst; lush land-route for ancient African diaspora; and evidence of funerary cannibalism.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Chinese tomb inscription; Texas mummy constipation; unknown language in Hittite tablet; and intact arrow from thawing Norwegian glacier.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Black earth in the Amazon; sunken port city in Egypt; wood structure built by pre-humans; and Viking antler combs.