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**The Archaeology Channel – Audio News from Archaeologica**

The news of the week in audio, for many years compiled and written by the late Michelle Hilling of Archaeologica, is now the product of our dedicated volunteer team. Read by Laura Kennedy, the Audio News is compiled from Archaeologica’s daily news updates. The musical interludes are original compositions by Anthony Kennedy. The Audio News from Archaeologica is compiled from Archaeologica.org’s daily news updates.

Latest Episodes:

Audio News Special Edition, October 25, 2026 Oct 26, 2026

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Drafted in Tarawa after our return from Nikumaroro (details)

Audio News Special Edition, October 18, 2026 Oct 19, 2026

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Drafted on board the ship LC Marin Mainiku on the way back from Nikumaroro (details)

Audio News Special Edition, October 11, 2026 Oct 12, 2026

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Drafted on board the ship LC Marin Mainiku on the way to Nikumaroro (details)

Audio News Special Edition, October 4, 2026 Oct 05, 2026

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Purdue Research Foundation and Archaeological Legacy Institute to embark on expedition to identify Amelia Earhart’s missing plane (details)

Audio News for September 20th through the 26th, 2026 Sep 28, 2026

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

A lost wall may reveal the location of ancient Paris (details)
A piece of the world’s oldest peace treaty emerges in Turkey (details)
wo ancient burials may explain Göbeklitepe’s scattered human bones (details) (details)
Giant stone circles raise new questions in Argentina’s Andes (details)

Audio News for June 28th through July 4th, 2026 Sep 28, 2026

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Herculaneum scrolls reveal hidden Greek text (details)
Ancient boat carvings suggest Atlantic links across Bronze Age Europe (details) (details)
Ireland Bronze Age settlement may be among Europe’s earliest towns (details) (details)
Early Americans specialized in hunting giant animals (details) (details)

Audio News for July 5th through the 11th, 2026 Sep 28, 2026

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Cave site in Turkey reveals cultural similarities between Neanderthals and early modern humans (details)
100,000-year-old facial wound may be earliest known incident of sharp-force violence (details) (details)
Lost Pima Himeri village located alongside 17th-century Jesuit mission (details)
New computational study estimates the majority of medieval chivalric literature has been lost (details) (details)

Audio News for July 12th through the 18th, 2026 Sep 28, 2026

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Ancient Polynesian seafarers resumed migration because of major drought (details) (details)
New study of mummies finds ancient Egyptian princesses wielded weapons (details) (details)
Precolonial Brazilian communities used variety of subsistence strategies, including reliance on maize (details) (details)
New study reexamines importance of Roman female farm managers (details) (details)

Audio News for July 19th through the 25th, 2026 Sep 28, 2026

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Flight missing for 74 years is finally located near Puerto Rico (details)
Modern archaeological tools revise manner of death for sacrificed Inca children (details) (details)
Basque Country cave paintings were designed with syntactic structure (details) (details)
Ash study reveals 25,000 years of continuous use of cave for rituals by Aboriginal group (details) (details)

Audio News for September 13th through the 19th, 2026 Sep 21, 2026

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Ancient wall points to early defensive engineering in Morocco (details) (details)
Dozens of ancient Mexican rock paintings trace a journey to the underworld (details)
Pre-colonization, Indigenous Australian population may have been as high as 2.2 million (details)
Researchers try lead-based method that could unlock the Herculaneum scrolls (details) (details)

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