Episodes

  • Audio News for October 20th through the 26th, 2024

    Audio News for October 20th through the 26th, 2024
    Oct 28 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Rare Minoan sanctuary discovered at Archanes (details)
    • Copper Age Carpathian miners spurred developments in the wheel (details)(details)
    • Forgotten colonial-era settlement found beneath the Amazon rainforest (details)
    • High-altitude settlements along the Silk Road puzzle archaeologists (details)(details)
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    11 mins
  • Audio News for October 13th through the 19th, 2024

    Audio News for October 13th through the 19th, 2024
    Oct 21 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • New documentary suggest Columbus was of Spanish Jewish heritage (details)
    • Untouched burial chamber discovered beneath Petra’s ‘Treasury’ (details)(details)
    • Unearthed throne room suggests Peru's ancient Moche society had a female ruler (details)(details)
    • Fifty well-preserved Viking era skeletons discovered in Denmark (details)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for October 6th through the 12th, 2024

    Audio News for October 6th through the 12th, 2024
    Oct 14 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Rising and lowering sea levels influenced living patterns of earliest coastal villages (details) (details)
    • Jade artifacts reveal evidence of trade between two cultures in ancient China (details)
    • Early Neolithic longhouse uncovered in Poland (details)
    • Scythian-like horse sacrifice in southern Siberia royal tomb (details) (details)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for September 29th through October 5th, 2024

    Audio News for September 29th through October 5th, 2024
    Oct 7 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Archaeologists discover large cemetery of Viking skeletons (details)
    • More than 1000 clay tablets returned from Chicago to Iran (details)
    • Walrus ivory shows interactions between Vikings and Indigenous North Americans (details) (details)
    • South African site shows 9,000 years of genetic continuity (details)(details)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for September 22nd through the 28th, 2024

    Audio News for September 22nd through the 28th, 2024
    Sep 30 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Identified Nazca Lines nearly doubled with assistance from AI model (details)(details)
    • Surprise discovery of centuries-old sweet potato cultivation in New Zealand (details)(details)
    • DNA analysis reveals gender imbalance in the Neolithic necropolis of Panoría (details)(details)
    • Bronze Age find reveals second origin point for cheese (details)(details)
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    12 mins
  • Audio News for September 15th through the 21st, 2024

    Audio News for September 15th through the 21st, 2024
    Sep 23 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Analysis of America's oldest tombstone illuminates colonial era trade networks (details)
    • South African rock art may depict animal that went extinct before dinosaurs (details) (details)
    • Mystery man interred under Notre-Dame nave was noted French poet (details)
    • Isotopic and stylistic analysis reveals The Lion of Venice’s Chinese origins (details)
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    12 mins
  • Audio News for September 8th through the 14th, 2024

    Audio News for September 8th through the 14th, 2024
    Sep 16 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • DNA of 'Thorin,' one of the last Neanderthals, finally sequenced, revealing inbreeding and 50,000 years of genetic isolation (details) (details)
    • Easter Island's population never collapsed, but it did have contact with Native Americans, DNA study suggests (details) (details)
    • Archaeologists challenge theory of violent Steppe invasion in Iberia Peninsula (details) (details)
    • Clovis people used Great Lakes camp annually about 13,000 years ago, researchers confirm (details) (details)
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    12 mins
  • Audio News for September 1st through the 7th, 2024

    Audio News for September 1st through the 7th, 2024
    Sep 9 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Scientist rules out Orkney origin for Stonehenge Altar Stone (details)
    • Roman silver coins may have been hidden from pirates (details)
    • New model reveals how climate impacted human dispersal over Europe (details)
    • Activists memorialize New York cemetery for enslaved people (details)
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    12 mins