The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

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)

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)

Audio News for January 26th through February 1st, 2025 Feb 03, 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)

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)

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)

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)

Audio News for December 29th, 2024, through January 4th, 2025 Jan 06, 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)

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)

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)

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)

Audio News for December 1st through the 7th, 2024 Dec 09, 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)

Audio News for November 24th through the 30th, 2024 Dec 02, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

European Pleistocene lithics mark key development in human technological evolution (details) (details)
Newly uncovered ancient dams showcase Liangzhu's advanced hydraulic engineering (details)
Pre-Columbian fishery system discovered in Belize sustained thousands (details) (details)
Footprints in Kenya reveal coexistence of multiple hominin species (details) (details)

Audio News for November 17th through the 23rd, 2024 Nov 25, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Newly discovered alphabet could be oldest in human history (details)
Cutting-edge imaging reveals hidden text in legendary Blue Qur'an (details)
New statistics technique better detehttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241119181845.htm
Bermuda dig reveals forgotten Colonial-era history (details)

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)

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)

å

Audio News for October 27th through November 2nd, 2024 Nov 04, 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)

å

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)

å

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)

å

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)

å

Audio News for September 29th through October 5th, 2024 Oct 07, 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)

å

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)

å

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)

å

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)

å

Audio News for September 1st through the 7th, 2024 Sep 09, 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)

å

Audio News for August 25th through the 31st, 2024 Sep 09, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

17th century samurai sword found in German WWII rubble (details)
Study finds sacrificed Inca child had violent death (details)
Mysterious Nordic burial ground for children unearthed (details)
Missing WWII USAF pilot identified at Sicilian crash site (details)

å

Audio News for August 18th through the 24th, 2024 Aug 26, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Unearthed Peru temple burials predate Inca empire by millennia (details)
New planted spear idea upends view of how prehistoric hunters downed huge prey (details) (details)
Ancient burial site spanning over 2,100 years located under zoo in south China (details)
8,000-year old female figurine in Turkish Neolithic site may have been protective talisman (details)

å

Audio News for August 11th through the 17th, 2024 Aug 19, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Altar Stone at Stonehenge matches the bedrock found in Scotland (details) (details)
Giant stone glyph uncovered on the bottom of a Maya sacred pool (details)
Neanderthals in southern Pyrenees were highly capable and adaptable (details) (details)
West Papua cave reveals early pathway for seafaring migrants into Sahul (details) (details) (details)

å

Audio News for August 4th through the 10th, 2024 Aug 12, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

New fossils provide insights into development of extinct hominin species (details)
New proposal for abandonment of ancient American settlement of Cahokia (details) (details)
Göbekli Tepe might show world’s oldest calendar (details) (details)
Excavation of Chinese bone needle workshop shows developments in ancient industrialization (details)

å

Audio News for July 28th through August 3rd, 2024 Aug 05, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Burial site used throughout Iron and Bronze ages unearthed in Germany (details) (details)
Remains of affluent life in 17th century Williamsburg unearthed in Virginia (details)
Chinese Bronze Age human sacrifice shows reinforcement of social status (details)
Virtual dissection conducted of 3,500 year old “Screaming Woman” mummy (details) (details)

å

Audio News for July 21st through the 27th, 2024 Jul 29, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Workshop buried in Sanxingdui Ruins offers clues to ancient jade and stone sourcing, crafting, distribution (details) (details)
Lake draining helps team find proof of ancient pre-Vikings in Norway (details)
Genetics show how ancient wild Four Corners potato became widespread staple (details) (details)
Excavations at ruined Anatolian castle uncover underground temple of secret religion (details)

å

Audio News for July 14th through the 20th, 2024 Jul 22, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Archaeologists uncover underwater rock carvings of Egyptian pharaohs (details)
Early humans in South America arrived early and ate armadillos (details) (details)
Ancient circular stone structures in Saudi Arabia indicate inhabitants were sophisticated thinkers (details) (details)
New geologic dating shows early European hominins came via Gibraltar (details) (details)

å

Audio News for July 7th through the 13th, 2024 Jul 15, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Roman garden may have belonged to Caligula (details)
Hittite royal seal warns of punishment (details)
Plant remains show how early farming unfolded in east Africa (details)(details)
Peruvian temple and theater are four thousand years old (details)

å

Audio News for June 30th through July 6th, 2024 Jul 08, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Novel analysis of cave bone fragments brings lives of extinct humans on the Tibetan plateau into focus (details) (details)
Newly discovered Venezuelan rock art may point to an unknown culture (details) (details)
Australia’s oldest known wooden artifacts document Aboriginal rituals (details) (details)
Analysis of Neolithic tomb provides intimate look at Europe’s family tree (details)

å

Audio News for June 23rd through the 29th, 2024 Jul 01, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Groundbreaking discovery in tomb-filled capital of Korea's ancient Silla Kingdom (details)
Laser sensors pierce forest canopy to reveal forgotten Maya settlements (details)
Gravitational wave science helps solve mystery of ancient analog computer (details)
First discovery of Neanderthal with Down syndrome confirms culture of community care (details)

Audio News for June 16th through the 22nd, 2024 Jun 24, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Medieval stone catapult balls found at Kenilworth Castle (details)
Sweet find in the cellars of Mount Vernon (details)
Protein analysis reveals human blood in plaster used on royal tomb in Benin (details)
Remains of Celtic people at Swiss site show violent death, probably in a bridge collapse (details)

Audio News for June 9th through the 15th, 2024 Jun 17, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Dietary evidence shows how a Bronze Age city in Syria survived (details)
Glass beads reveal Indigenous American trade networks (details)(details)
New evidence shows where survivors of Vesuvius eruption resettled (details)
Dating for the world’s oldest wooden sculpture (details)(details)

Audio News for June 2nd through the 8th, 2024 Jun 10, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Cooking techniques of Mongolian nomads revealed (details) (details)
Woman warrior uncovered among 25 warrior monks in Spain (details) (details) (details)
Prehistoric South American rock art served as possible territory markers (details) (details) (details)
Study proposes that Seahenge was built to extend the warm weather (details) (details)

Audio News for May 26th through June 1st, 2024 Jun 03, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

4,000 year old tablet reveals Anatolian business plan (details)(details)
Ancient Egyptians may have performed cancer-treating surgeries (details)(details)
Characteristics of prehistoric Central European burial mounds may indicate trends in inequality (details)(details)
Seven-century-old ceremonial offerings recovered at Mexico’s Tlatelolco Archaeological Zone (details)(details)

Audio News for May 19th through the 25th, 2024 May 27, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Found: a forgotten, fiery moment in Hannibal's Iron Age war (details)(details)(details)
Chile’s Tagua Tagua Lake served as the hunting ground for early elephants (details)(details)(details)
Vikings ship horses up to 900 miles across Baltic Sea (details)(details)
Greek Marines prove Bronze Age body armor wasn't just for show (details)(details)(details)

Audio News for May 12th through the 18th, 2024 May 20, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Thriving ancient Roman town lasted longer than believed (details)
Genomes of modern viruses found in Neanderthal bones (details)
Lake District stone circle may be 700 years older than Stonehenge (details)
Pair buried in embrace on a horse weren't lovers, but related women (details)

Audio News for May 5th through the 11th, 2024 May 13, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Roman shipwreck held fish sauce (details)(details)
New linguistic model shows four waves of migration into the Americas (details)(details)
Microarchaeology provides new precision for early history of Jerusalem (details)(details)
English study shows leprosy could come from Medieval red squirrels (details)(details)

Audio News for April 28th through May 4th, 2024 May 06, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Ancient Pueblo communicated through conch-shell trumpets (details)
Ritual and medicinal plant DNA preserved under ancient Maya ball court (details)(details)
Neanderthal woman’s face is reconstructed (details)
Paleolithic North African hunter-gatherers ate plant-based diet (details)(details)

Audio News for April 21st through the 27th, 2024 Apr 29, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

DNA analysis illuminates social practices of an ancient Eurasian warrior empire (details)(details)(details)
Preserved Pre-Revolutionary War cherries unearthed at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (details)(details)
Rare structures may have guided Neolithic farmers to the afterlife (details)(details)
Interdisciplinary research team to investigate whether Stonehenge was designed for lunar alignment (details)(details)

Audio News for April 14th through the 20th, 2024 Apr 22, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

18th Century cleft palate prosthesis found in mouth of Polish crypt skeleton (details)(details)(details)
Excavations off Great Barrier Reef prove early Aboriginal Australians crafted pottery (details)(details)
Analysis of pyramid damage suggests Teotihuacan suffered through five damaging earthquakes (details)(details)
Genomic study proves Blackfoot Confederacy historical rights with lineage tracing to Late Pleistocene (details)(details)

Audio News for April 7th through the 13th, 2024 Apr 15, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Newly discovered Pompeii paintings tell of the Trojan War (details)
New research in Tonga reveals high population living in low-density city system (details)
Virginia dig at historic log house documents Black American life after Civil War (details)
1800-year-old clay seal reveals name of Sassanid city (details)

Audio News for March 31st through April 6th, 2024 Apr 08, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Air Force unit in New Mexico uncovers prehistoric site (details)
Paleolithic wooden tools from Germany show diverse woodworking techniques (details) (details)
Eggshells from Central Asian sites show the rapid spread of domesticated chickens (details) (details)
Sand sculpture on South African coast suggests origin of representational art (details) (details)

Audio News for March 24th through the 30th, 2024 Apr 01, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Horse trading in Medieval Europe was crucial part of everyday life (details)(details)
Iranian Plateau served as hub for early human migration (details)(details)
Ancient Peru experienced violence and crisis during political upheaval (details)
Island time capsule in northwestern Australia (details)(details)

Audio News for March 17th through the 23rd, 2024 Mar 25, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Aztec books depicting life before the Spanish now publicly owned (details)
Food study points to interactions between South Americans and Polynesians (details)
Preserved remains of English Bronze Age village reveal details of daily life (details)
Sophisticated canoes shine light on technical skills in the Neolithic Mediterranean (details) (details)

Audio News for March 10th through the 16th, 2024 Mar 18, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

3,300-year-old clay tablet describes cataclysmic invasion of four Hittite Empire cities (details)(details)
Largest ever South Asian whole-genome analysis points to single major migration to India from Africa 50,000 years ago (details)(details)
Mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg could be largest ever in Europe (details)(details)(details)
Oldest known bead in the Western Hemisphere discovered in Wyoming (details)(details)

Audio News for March 3rd through the 9th, 2024 Mar 11, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

14 wrecked ships in Bahamas may offer insight to life in the slave trade (details)
7,000-year-old burial cave in Spain includes Neanderthal-era goat bones (details)
Oldest stone tools in Europe hint strongly at east-to-west migration (details)
Medieval Spanish astrolabe has both Islamic and Hebrew inscriptions (details)

Audio News for February 25th through March 2nd, 2024 Mar 04, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Medieval French abbey reveals historical structure with over 1,000 burials (details)
Obsidian blade from Texas suggests a link to Coronado’s expedition (details)(details)
Genetic evidence shows that French Mesolithic hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding (details)(details)
Temple excavation indicates Philistine ritual use of plants (details)

Audio News for February 18th through the 24th, 2024 Feb 26, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Ancient Danish gold ring suggests ties to important kingdom (details)
Neanderthal tool design reveals higher-level thinking (details)(details)
Historic armor reveals aspects of early colonial America (details)
Local origins of the mysterious multicultural mummies in far western China (details)(details)

Audio News for February 11th through the 17th, 2024 Feb 19, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Mesolithic megastructure in the Baltic Sea offers insight into early hunter-gatherers (details)(details)
Patagonian rock art served as a generational communication tool (details)(details)
Stone Age skeleton study reveals life story (details)(details)(details)
New radiocarbon dating suggests independence of the Rongorongo script (details)(details)

Audio News for February 4th through the 10th, 2024 Feb 12, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Spanish Bronze Age gold hoard contains meteorite metal (details)(details)
Archaeologists discover Roman era bone container filled with poisonous seeds (details)(details)
Transition from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to farmers was a violent affair (details)(details)(details)
Fascinating but challenging Amazon rainforest caves reveal their secrets (details)(details)

Audio News for January 28th through February 3rd, 2024 Feb 05, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

German cave shows modern humans replaced Neanderthals locally by 45,000 years ago (details)(details)
Footprints on a Moroccan beach are oldest human trackway from the region (details)
Salvage dig in looted Maya tomb uncovers jade mosaic mask (details)
Cold, dry years may have made plagues worse during the Roman Empire (details)

Audio News for January 21st through the 27th, 2024 Jan 29, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Archaeomagnetic dating pinpoints construction of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate (details)
Amateur archaeologists unearth a Roman dodecahedron in central England (details)
Peruvian sites show even early hunters lived mostly on plant foods (details)
New analysis confirms which relatives of Alexander the Great occupy the royal tombs of Macedonia (details)

Audio News for January 14th through the 20th, 2024 Jan 22, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Gum disease, tooth decay common among Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (details)
Like-new 14th century gauntlet discovered in Switzerland (details)
New study reveals origins of western Europeans (details)
Woolly mammoths shared habitat with earliest human settlements in Alaska (details)

Audio News for January 7th through the 13th, 2024 Jan 15, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

First Roman tombs dug directly into rock found in Egypt (details)
Colossal Bronze Age rampart discovered around one of Arabia's longest oases (details) (details)
Deep in Amazon rainforest, lasers reveal oldest cities yet (details) (details) (details)
Grave of tall man with long sword may shed light on medieval union of Nordic countries (details) (details)

Audio News for December 31st, 2023, through January 6, 2024 Jan 08, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Cerne Giant was probably Hercules, and rallied early Medieval farmers fighting off Viking invaders (details)
New palace found in central China, dating to fabled Xia Dynasty (details)
Archaeologists at Tulum find Maya burial cave (details)
Bronze buckles from central Europe may show beliefs of lost pagan cult (details)

Audio News for December 24th through the 30th, 2023 Jan 01, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

New study shows how quickly Patagonian natives adopted the horse (details)
Europe’s first mega-sites thrived on a mostly vegetarian diet (details)
Now underwater, northwest Australia’s continental shelf once was settled (details)
Pompeii dig finds group of terracotta figurines honoring the cult goddess Cybele (details)

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

The Archaeology Channel – Audio News from Archaeologica

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected