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  • 13 minutes 25 seconds
    Audio News for February 16th through the 22nd, 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)
    24 February 2025, 11:21 am
  • 13 minutes 6 seconds
    Audio News for February 9th through the 15th, 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)
    17 February 2025, 5:36 pm
  • 12 minutes 18 seconds
    Audio News for February 2nd through the 8th, 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)
    10 February 2025, 11:03 am
  • 13 minutes 38 seconds
    Audio News for January 26th through February 1st, 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)
    3 February 2025, 7:51 pm
  • 13 minutes 38 seconds
    Audio News for January 19th through the 25th, 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)
    27 January 2025, 9:55 am
  • 15 minutes 26 seconds
    Audio News for January 12th through the 18th, 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)
    20 January 2025, 4:05 pm
  • 14 minutes 17 seconds
    Audio News for January 5th through the 11th, 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)
    13 January 2025, 4:23 pm
  • 12 minutes 49 seconds
    Audio News for December 29th, 2024, through January 4th, 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)
    6 January 2025, 3:00 pm
  • 14 minutes 31 seconds
    Audio News for December 22nd through the 28th, 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)
    30 December 2024, 3:03 pm
  • 12 minutes 56 seconds
    Audio News for December 15th through the 21st, 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)
    23 December 2024, 9:05 am
  • 13 minutes 48 seconds
    Audio News for December 8th through the 14th, 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)
    16 December 2024, 10:18 am
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