The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

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: Neanderthals hunted lions, wore their pelts; pre-Columbian Caribbean cultures’ plant-based diets; Rise in cranial trauma accompanied initial urbanizations; and Stone Age herders prized their grinding tools.

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.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Skeleton in Turkey confirms ancient earthquake; humans wearing footwear 150,000 years ago; Medieval artifacts point to magic rituals on the Hajj; and millenium-old hirsute mummy in Lima, Peru.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rare Chinese chime bells; diving bell off Florida coast; Roman swords in Dead Sea cave; and Israeli researcher proposes prey size affected technology advances.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Shanidar Cave flower burial debunked; ancient human population bottleneck; ancient Southern California wildfires; and Confederate skeletons at Civil War battlefield.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Proteins on ancient cauldrons; physical evidence of two Jerusalem destructions; drum-like dance floor in Peru; and DNA from 2900-year-old Assyrian brick.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early drainage system in China; Iceman Ötzi had dark skin; Medieval girl in England buried face down; and Nautilus shell beads in Indonesia.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age pyramid in Kazakhstan; early arrival of African cattle in the Americas; Europe’s oldest stilt village; and jawbone in China suggests unknown human lineage.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Long-hidden features under Exeter Cathedral; Teotihuacan-period village; first English slave fort in Africa; and Switzerland arrowhead made from Estonian meteorite.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 300,000-year-old throwing stick in Germany; Iron Age burial in Britain was female; prehistoric sites help save Louisiana coastline; and oldest curry.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ben Franklin’s paper money; underground passages of the Zapotecs; gold coins hidden in medieval German monastery; and Neolithic polishing stone in England.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Mosaics at Galilee synagogue; remarkably early human presence in South American cave; Viking grave goods in southern Norway; and genetic data from 2 million year old African hominin.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Huge hand-axes in England; early fiber technology in the Phillipines; large and aligned Mesolithic pits in England; and 18,000-year-old date for Oregon rockshelter.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pizza-like image in Pompeii; agriculture and death rates in North America; more about seventh-century Anglo-Saxon girl; and cannibalism among early human ancestors in Kenya.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Andean droughts and violence; muscular modeling of “Lucy”; warfare in European Neolithic; and Bronze Age sword in Bavaria.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Blood residues point to North American megafauna; early modern humans in Laotian cave; small-brained hominins in South African burials; and new Bronze Age burial mounds near Stonehenge.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rare finds from poorly known culture in Iran; 12,000-year-old bird bone flutes in Israel; ritual offerings at Uxmal; and malaria in Medici family.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Armenian bakery’s 3,000-years-old wheat flour; Biblical Judean rulers -- even more G.I. issues than previously known; Australian boat rock art reveals link with Indonesian culture; and ancient flintknappers risked severe injury.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: World’s oldest blueprints; First battle site, French and Indian War; Mid-Pleistocene controlled cooking fires; and Brittany multi-religion Roman temple.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Megalithic tomb in Spain; Maya ballgame scoreboard; Germany’s oldest human footprints; and Roman sites in Scotland.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA evidence for New World migrations from China; teenage colonist in Maryland; Indus Civilization decline by drought; and Neolithic road beneath Adriatic Sea.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Buddha in Egypt; submerged cemetery in Florida; AI model to translate cuneiform; and 150,000-year-old Senegalese site.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wooden mask from Osaka; ancient Parisian cemetery; early Puerto Rico burials; and Spanish Pleistocene bone tool and early clothing.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman Civil War Coins Found in Tuscany; DNA analysis reveals genetic diversity and dynastic politics of ancient empire; Medieval Norse Greenland settlers imported North American timber; and Blackbeard’s Coal Mystery -- not so much.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age psychedelics use; Christian frescoes found at medieval African site; ancient Levant humans ambushed wild cows; and climatic deterioration may have driven decline.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New Miami finds set preservation against development; Roman moon goddess jewelry in Judea burial; Severed hands found in Egyptian palace pits; and South African cave suggests ancients there ate giant land snails.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Swahili genetics; 6000-year-old fishhook in Israel; early horses in Indigenous America; and Roman artifacts in Brittany trash dump.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient bloodletting tools in Sudan; Zodiac reliefs in Egyptian temple; genomic analysis of Beethoven hair; and serpent sculpture at Chichén Itzá.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early steel in Iberia; Cypriot village as Bronze Age trading hub; Colchester Vase; and Wari pottery.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age ice skates in western China; evidence of horse-riding 5000 years ago; lake pollution by early Maya city; and Norse god Odin in early runic inscription.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Chinese city of Bicun; longevity of Mesoamerican cities; Iberia as Ice-Age refugium; and evidence of prehistoric TB in Ecuador.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Live artillery round at Gettysburg; ancient Vietnamese musical instrument; cattle-horn container in South Africa; and Bronze Age cranial surgery in Israel.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldowan tools in Kenya; Mexican burial mounds; early Medieval fortress in Spain; and lavish spices in Danish royal shipwreck.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Drought as cause for Hittite Empire collapse; climate windows for Beringia coastal migration; oldest North American bone spear point; and gold wires connected teeth of French female aristocrat.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rosetta Stone for ancient Amorite; large pits in Great Zimbabwe; Neanderthal elephant hunting; and underground aqueduct in Naples.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early silver currency in Southern Levant; early Mesolithic human remains in northern England; huge moat under Old Jerusalem; and elite tombs in southwest Mexico.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age well in Bavaria; 144 slave graves in South Carolina; Hunnic tomb in Romania; European Neolithic skeletons show frequent violence.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Origins of enslaved Africans; survey of European bog bodies; reconstruction of Jericho skull; and Medieval Italian skull reflects brutal murder.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Huge Viking hall in northern Jutland; indigenous dogs at Jamestown; new kurgan tomb in Siberia; and ancient flakes in Brazil made by monkeys.