Episodes

  • Audio News for March 2nd through the 8th, 2025

    Audio News for March 2nd through the 8th, 2025
    Mar 10 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Sophisticated irrigation system uncovered in ancient city of Eridu (details) (details)
    • Migration, not culture, influenced Europe’s Celtic languages (details) (details)
    • Ancient ceramic “puppets” in El Salvador show Central American connections (details) (details)
    • World’s oldest bone tools reported from Olduvai Gorge (details) (details)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for February 23rd through March 1st, 2025

    Audio News for February 23rd through March 1st, 2025
    Mar 3 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Fossilized track marks indicate earliest known use of handcarts (details)(details)
    • DNA tracing confirms complex genetic backgrounds of the Huns (details)(details)
    • Super heating and cooling from Vesuvius eruption caused glass brain (details)(details)
    • Research summary: Göbekli Tepe was a domestic site (details)
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    15 mins
  • Audio News for February 16th through the 22nd, 2025

    Audio News for February 16th through the 22nd, 2025
    Feb 24 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • King Thutmose II’s tomb found, the first royal burial discovery in over a century (details)(details)(details)
    • Laser technology uncovers intricate fifteenth century Zapotec city (details)(details)
    • Plague epidemics likely started a century before the Black Death (details)(details)
    • Excavation uncovers section of Great Wall 300 years older than previous estimates (details)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for February 9th through the 15th, 2025

    Audio News for February 9th through the 15th, 2025
    Feb 17 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Archaeologists uncover Silla Kingdom palace site, revealing royal structures and advanced engineering (details)
    • Ancient skeletons found in the Thames may indicate Bronze and Iron Age conflicts (details)
    • Study uncovers complex genetic origins of the Fulani, one of Africa’s largest pastoral groups (details) (details)
    • 2,000-year-old ancient tombs discovered in Colombia by local waffle chain (details) (details)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for February 2nd through the 8th, 2025

    Audio News for February 2nd through the 8th, 2025
    Feb 10 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Roots of Indo-European languages revealed by ancient DNA (details) (details)
    • Arabic manuscript contains lost works of the Greek “Great Geometer” Apollonius (details)
    • Changes in North American Indigenous population outlined by radiocarbon-dated artifacts (details)
    • Interdisciplinary team peers inside Mount Vesuvius-damaged scroll (details)
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    12 mins
  • Audio News for January 26th through February 1st, 2025

    Audio News for January 26th through February 1st, 2025
    Feb 3 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • English seaside residence identified as the lost site of King Harold's 11th-century home (details)(details)
    • Unique drainage and irrigation system supported Amazon's first grain-based agrarian economy (details)(details)
    • Roman sanctuary discovered deep within Spain’s key Paleolithic site (details)
    • DNA research traces the human-influenced development of sheep genomes over 12 millennia (details)(details)
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    14 mins
  • 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