Episodes

  • Audio News for November 10th through the 16th, 2024

    Audio News for November 10th through the 16th, 2024
    Nov 18 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Satellite imaging pinpoints location of ancient Islamic battle (details) (details)
    • Earliest known Maya salt production site uncovered in Belize (details) (details)
    • Dexterity in australopithecines like Lucy may have developed far earlier than thought (details) (details)
    • Ancient Greece’s cultural rise started a century earlier than previously thought—new research (details) (details)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for November 3rd through 9th, 2024

    Audio News for November 3rd through 9th, 2024
    Nov 11 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Mesopotamian cylinder seals linked to development of writing system (details) (details)
    • DNA analysis challenges previous assumptions about Pompeii body casts (details) (details)
    • Ice Age stone tablets show oldest known images of fishing nets (details) (details)
    • Excavation of Peruvian burial mound reveals 76 child sacrifice victims (details)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for October 27th through November 2nd, 2024

    Audio News for October 27th through November 2nd, 2024
    Nov 4 2024
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Archaeologists discover bronze plaque with inscriptions at monumental temple of Poseidon in Greece (details)
    • New evidence reveals prehistoric Polynesians' southernmost voyage (details) (details)
    • LiDAR technology reveals ancient Maya settlement patterns in Campeche (details) (details) (details)
    • 4,000-year-old Bronze Age settlement found at Khaybar Oasis in Saudi Arabia (details) (details)
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    13 mins
  • 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