The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pre-Hispanic date for Aztec manuscript; DNA suggests no mass migration to China; homeowner finds massive Danish Viking treasure; and giant glyphs in recent Australian rock art.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hidden Inka roads near Machu Picchu; circular Neolithic structure in Czech Republic; man-on-leopard statue at Karahan Tepe; and cacao conclusively found at Mississippian center.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early cow evidence in Ireland proven wrong; Neanderthals in Arabian desert; earliest Austronesian painting in Indonesia; and grave goods document pre-Inca metal processing.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pope supported Norman Conquest; inscription connects Minoan and Greek gods; ancient Colombian communities built water systems; and newly found church as the site for the First Council of Nicaea.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Moche potters in northern Peru; sugar as the fuel for human brain evolution; female mammoths hunted more often in the Ice Age; and scattered human bones suggest violence at Roman villa in Britain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly found Amazonian civilization; medieval Byzantine shipwreck; ghost DNA of unknown human ancestors; and newly identified Assyrian kings.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Missing airplane found after 74 years; manner of death for children sacrificed by Inca; syntactic structure of Basque Country cave paintings; and 25,000 years of ritual use in Australian cave.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Drought prompted Polynesian migration; Egyptian princesses wielded weapons; precolonial Brazilian subsistence strategies; and Roman female farm managers.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cave reveals cultural similarity in Neanderthals and modern humans; 100,000-year-old facial wound; lost Indigenous village alongside Jesuit mission; and most chivalric literature has been lost.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Reading Herculaneum scrolls; Iberian boat carvings link to Scandinavia; huge Ireland Bronze Age settlement; and early Americans and megafauna.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: All-female burials within South African Pleistocene cave; genetic diversity of Neanderthals; ancient human DNA on cave walls; and discovery of Maya city.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pre-Stonehenge solar monument; early plague among hunter-gathers; large-scale fishing in the Canary Islants; and second Alamo cannonball.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Maya figurine with the oldest written numbers; argument for gradual development of modern humans; Iron Age burial in northern Scotland; and late Paleolithic jewelry in northern Spain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Moving the Stonehenge Altar Stone; very ancient fire use in South Africa; pirate shipwrecks in the Bahamas; and Copper Age mass burial in Spain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Forensic archaeology of Namibia genocide; human beds in South African caves; pre-Inca migration in Peru; and diverse DNA results from different migrations to Britain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Seismic resistance of the Great Pyramid; Neolithic megastructure in Romania; ritual transformations in Mesoamerica; and Pompeii doctor’s medical kit.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Earlier dates for horse domestication; Neanderthal tooth with dental treatment; heated argument about Monte Verde antiquity; and remarkable size of Macedonian tomb.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA identification of Franklin Expedition crew members; Maya dogs trades widely; chert heat treatment earliest in Australia; and artificial Scottish island built on wood.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldest habitation along South America Atlantic coast; small-scale Germanic migrations on Roman border; origins of bread wheat in the Caucusus; and Shahmash Gate in ancient Nineveh.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Iliad fragment inside Egyptian mummy; Southern Cone populations shifts; discoveries in Czech rail corridor; and study on Neanderthal extinction.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hominins burning driftwood as fuel?; Ancient Bolivian mummy suffered scarlet fever; Ancient megastructure evinces communal governance; and Homo erectus preferred tools with fossil inclusions?

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Age-old gender gap in meat consumption; surprisingly early stone factory; northern France Neolithic cemetery reveals population replacement; and Maya structure allowed public view of decision-making.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Older dates for Mohenjo-Daro; Native Americans had the earliest dice; Roman mosaic with female fighter; and Shroud of Turin DNA points to India.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New proposed dating for Monte Verde; study of historical world democracy; first Palauans were of mixed ancestry; and Iron Age hoards in Britain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Carbon dating of French rock art; thousands of ostraca in Egypt; parrot feathers on Peruvian coast; annd Europe’s oldest handgun.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Preserved letter of Nubian king; DNA reveals interactions of European farmers and hunter-gatherers; ancient settlements in northern Mexico; and ceremonial offerings in Templo Mayor.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ice Age sign systems; modern-human interbreeding with Neanderthals; northern Peru geoglyph and farming complex; and Greek inscription in Syrian mosque.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Japan’s prehistoric genetic lineages; psychoactive drink of ancient Greece; very old Venezuelan petroglyph; and older date for Israel’s Ubeidiya site.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Perishable artifacts from Oregon Pleistocene sites; very early Egyptian bow drill; very ancient open-sea travel in the High Arctic; and modeling of wild plant ranges of key domesticates in Western Asia.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bone found, possibly from Hannibal’s war elephants; Early mammoth ivory workshop found; Early innovation linked to mobility; and cemetery yields insights on medieval Hungary.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldest Wooden Tools Unearthed; Oaxaca Tomb Features Enormous Owl Carving; Pillars Point to Thriving Neolithic Culture; and Advanced Stone Technology Unearthed in China.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Indonesian island with the world’s oldest cave art; oldest elephant-bone tool in Europe; early bacterium related to syphilis; and Jordan mass burial reveals migration patterns.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Phrygian tomb far from Gordion; Anglo-Saxon cemetery in England; late burials in Spanish Neolithic dolmen; and underwater remains on Peruvian coast.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Lidar reveals hidden Ecuadorian cultural landscape; very ancient poisoned arrowheads; trove of administrative artifacts in Iran; and rare bronze horn in England.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Lost Spanish mission in Texas; early silver penny in Scotland; huge hillfort in Ireland; and surprisingly ancient cremation in Malawi.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Very old textile fragments in Bulgarian cave; Maya patolli board with mosaic design; Indian stone labyrinth; and Hittite cuneiform fragment in Czech Republic.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Technological innovation at Paleolithic site in France; comet to explain Star of Bethlehem; Chinese community’s climate survival; and where the Bayeux Tapestry originally hung.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Indigenous sites near Jamestown; earliest intentional fire in England; mathematical relationships in Neolithic art; and submerged stone structures in Brittany.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Isolation of early humans in southern Africa; DNA and cat domestication; sacrificial patterns of men and women in ancient China; and Mexica break-aways in Mexico City.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cereal grains and early state development; early migrants to Australia; Peruvian astronomical structure; and two pharaohs in the same tomb.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early “woman with goose” figurine in northern Israel; unusual metal-production site in Kazakhstan; Lake Mendota canoes; and silver cup in Palestine with cosmic map.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Andean site with thousands of holes; correlating human and dog migration; ancient port in Toulon, France; and Denisovan DNA nearly absent in ancient Japan.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman roads more extensive; early stone tool technology in Kenya; early Maya city as cosmogram; and surprising Ice Age sites in Iberian highlands.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Southern Africa as human point of origin; Maya politics and culture at Ek Balam; Crimea Neanderthal remains connect with Central Asia; and Nigeria excavations highlight Kingdom of Benin.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Stone-tool linkage between North America and Asia; key adjustment of Egyptian chronology; Cahokia wooden pole; and early Australians may not have caused megafauna extinctions.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Non-human hominids could make stone tools; Minoan labyrinth; Maya salt production at underwater site; and Egyptian plague might not have happened.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: How Easter Island moai statues walked; new dates for Egypt’s Karnak temple; ritual platforms aided Chinese unification; and psychedelic beer in ancient Peru.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Earliest city in China; later emergence of Bering Land Bridge; large role of megafauna in South American Ice Age diets; and how Bronze Age cities in Turkey adapted to drought.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Very early jewelry workshop in France; pre-Hispanic structures in poorly documented Mexican state; surprisingly early horses in Sicily; and million-year-old skulls in China.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Exploding comet at Clovis sites; smoke-dried mummies; identity of woman honored by Roman sculpture; underwater port and Cleopatria’s tomb.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Very early intentional burial; ancient red floor in Neolithic Turkey; newly uncovered city in Peru; and post-Roman British metal production.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Paleolithic indigo dye; West African tool workshop; Kazakhstan burial mounds; and frog sculpture from the Peruvian Caral civilization.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pre-agriculture development in Uzbekistan; 3000-year-old Peruvian mural; and 10,000 years of use in Scottish field.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Tidal cause for Sumerian irrigation infrastructure; spread of Neolithic farmers into central Europe; Denisovan genes in Indigenous Americans; and isotope analysis of Stonehenge cow tooth.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Drought and the Yucatán Maya; silver Viking-Age hoard in England; die-cast coins in SE Asia; and Neolithic cannibalism.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New Maya population estimate; very old Sulawesi artifacts; post-eruption Pompeii inhabitants; and DNA study of southern Caucasus.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Shroud of Turin study; English Medieval dental study shows effects of malnutrition; distant source for Maya Blue pigment; and Czech Republic Celtic site with riches.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Lost Maya city rediscovered; Paleolithic funerary ritual in Israel; bronze armor in the Czech Republic; and Persian influence in Madagascar.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue Research Foundation announce partnership to investigate the possible wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s missing aircraft.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldest Egyptian genome; city discovered in Peru; Paleolithic wooden tools in China; and Neanderthal bone boiling.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Dragon Man skull is Denisovan; multistory buildings in ancient Egyptian city; human fire use increased 50,000 years ago; and ancient Tiwanaku temple in Bolivia.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Dog DNA in the Americas; confirmation of age of New Mexico footprints; ancient Roman city of Metlosedum; and Danish Viking burials with grave goods.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman artifact in Ireland; wild boar domestication in China; traces of early Veracruz history; and computer model of Neanderthal migration.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: AI Model Helps Date Dead Sea Scrolls Writing; Ancient Amerindian Crop Fields Suggest Advanced Social Order; Anatolian Tomb May Be for Relative of King Midas; and Stone Age Philippines Islands’ Wide-Ranging Cultural Exchange.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Copan DNA study; desert monuments in Oman; Iron Age hillfort cemetery in England; and huge Brazilian slave cemetery.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA study in eastern Spain; tomb in Kuelap, Peru; Homo erectus fragments from Indonesian sea floor; and African figurines in Israel.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Analysis of Aztec obsidian; pregnancy as seen by Vikings; relief depicting Assyrian king; and analysis of Macedonian royal burials.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Breakthrough reading of Herculaneum papyrus; confirming Britain origin of Bronze Age tin; swastika-engraved swords in Celtic necropolis; and ritual drug use in ancient Peru.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA links modern tribe with Chaco Canyon; text praising Ramses II on Luxor obelisk; early settlement on Scottish island; and Milky Way in Egyptian art.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Evidence for Roman-era human-animal gladiatorial combat; elite Caral woman from 5000 years ago; DNA of Punic populations; and Mongolia’s earliest pottery.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Social inequality study; modified human remains in Texas; origin of domestic cats; and drought and barbarian invasion in Britain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: awbone confirms Denisovans’ spread across Asia; Teotihuacan Altar confirms cultural crossover in Tikal city-state; South African cave’s ancient tools confirm connections among prehistoric peoples; and Macedonian ruins might be those of long lost Lycestis capital.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Morocco Bronze Age not so empty; Stone tool innovations in Paleolithic China; Ancient weapon system found in Texas cave; and Sutton Hoo helmet – Scandinavian origin?

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Egalitarian funerary practices in Bronze Age Basur Höyük; Cultural significance of geophytes in North American prehistory; Wildfires threaten South Korean historic sites; and Dog remains from Roman Britain reveal rituals and care.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: English henge older than Stonehenge; non-elite burials beneath Nubian pyramids; Tibetan Plateau habitation during Glacial Maximum; and artifacts returned to Honduras.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Israeli cave connects modern and archaic humans; DNA shows early Mediterranean Sea crossings; unusual burial in Ecuador; and ancient Greek tomb in Tenea.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient irrigation system in southern Iraq; DNA study highlights Celtic languages; ceramic “puppets” in El Salvador; and oldest bone tools from Olduvai Gorge.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early track marks in New Mexico; DNA study of the Huns; Herculaneum glass brain; and Göbekli Tepe.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly found royal Egyptian tomb; LiDAR uncovers Zapotec site; plague before the Black Death; and oldest Great Wall segment.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Korean palace; human bones in the Thames; genetic origins of the Fulani pastoralists; and ancient Colombian tombs.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA unravels Indo-European languages; lost Greek text in Arabic manuscript; North American population fluctuations; and virtual reading of Herculaneum scroll.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Lost residence of King Harold; Amazon irrigation system; Roman sanctuary in Spanish cave; and human-influenced sheep genomes.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Romania yields earliest hominin evidence; Tiwanaku growth after ashfall; Australian earth rings; and origin of money.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Visible object may be Earhart aircraft; Inca tunnel system in Cusco; burial analysis indicates Celtic matrilineal system in Britain; and newly uncovered Pompeii bathhouse.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Sutton Hoo burials linked to Byzantium; early specialization in northern Iraq; genetic history of eastern Indonesia; and strontium isotope map of Africa.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Medieval female warrior in Hungary; DNA reveals historic European migrations; 18th-century Russian ship in Iran; and angel murals in old Boston church.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Aegean shipwreck with 10,000 plates; genomes reflect Indo-European language branching; huge villa in Assyrian capital; and ancient Peruvian tomb with family members sacrificed.