Episodes

  • Audio News for January 19th through the 25th, 2025

    Audio News for January 19th through the 25th, 2025
    Jan 27 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Oldest known presence of hominins in Europe found in Romania (details) (details)
    • Volcanic ash may have helped develop ancient Bolivian city (details)
    • Human effort made Australia’s earth rings (details(details))
    • Ancient trade between strangers may explain the creation of money (details)(details)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for January 12th through the 18th, 2025

    Audio News for January 12th through the 18th, 2025
    Jan 20 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Amelia Earhart’s airplane possibly discovered in satellite imagery (details)
    • Archaeologists find underground Inca tunnel system (details)
    • Iron Age Celtic communities in Britain based on female lineage (details) (details)
    • Excavators uncover opulent Pompeii bathhouse (details)
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    15 mins
  • Audio News for January 5th through the 11th, 2025

    Audio News for January 5th through the 11th, 2025
    Jan 13 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Anglo-Saxon connections with Byzantium shown in Sutton Hoo burials (details) (details)
    • Pottery production in Iraq shows evidence of early specialization dating back 8,000 years (details)
    • Ancient DNA and human migrations shed light on the genetic history of Indonesia (details) (details)
    • Strontium isotope map used to decode the mystery of the origins of wildlife and individuals in the past (details) (details)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for December 29th, 2024, through January 4th, 2025

    Audio News for December 29th, 2024, through January 4th, 2025
    Jan 6 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Possible burial of a female medieval warrior located in Hungary (details)(details)
    • New DNA analysis method brings historic European migrations into focus (details)(details)
    • Eighteenth-century Russian cargo unearthed from a Caspian Sea shipwreck in Iran (details) (details)
    • Colonial-era angel murals unearthed at historic Boston church (details)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for December 22nd through the 28th, 2024

    Audio News for December 22nd through the 28th, 2024
    Dec 30 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Spectacular shipwreck bearing 10,000 ceramics lay untouched in Aegean for over a millennium (details)
    • Ancient genomes reveal Bronze Age branching of Indo-European language groups (details) (details)
    • Villa double the size of US White House revealed within ancient Assyrian capital (details)(details)
    • 1,500-year-old Peruvian tomb holds teenage human sacrifices to family members (details) (details)
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    15 mins
  • Audio News for December 15th through the 21st, 2024

    Audio News for December 15th through the 21st, 2024
    Dec 23 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Silver amulet may reveal spread of Christianity north of the Alps (details)
    • Remains of 40 people from the Bronze Age reveal violent deaths (details) (details)
    • Site of Alexander the Great’s most important battle is located (details)
    • Syphilis started in the Americas, not Europe (details) (details)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for December 8th through the 14th, 2024

    Audio News for December 8th through the 14th, 2024
    Dec 16 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Archaeologists uncover sarcophagus that may belong to Saint Nicholas (details)
    • Two studies support new date of Neanderthals interbreeding with humans (details)
    • Manot Cave shows evidence of earliest communal ritual on Asian continent (details) (details)
    • President Andrew Jackson’s slave cemetery found on his property (details)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for December 1st through the 7th, 2024

    Audio News for December 1st through the 7th, 2024
    Dec 7 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • New findings from Shakhi Kora evidence the first government system dates back to the 4th millennium (details) (details)
    • Ancient undeciphered script found on tablet in Georgia (details) (details)
    • New Alaska discoveries push human-canid relationship record back 2,000 years (details) (details)
    • Archaeologists discover hidden treasures beneath Notre Dame Cathedral during reconstruction (details)
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    13 mins