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)

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)

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)

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)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• First discovery of an arm bone in China from the mysterious Denisovans (details) (details)
• 25,000-year-old betel nut traces indicate oldest habitual use of drugs (details) (details)
• Researchers discover elite pre-Colombian Peruvian funeral platform (details)
• Irish cave art indicates migrants from Wales arrived much earlier than expected (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Carbon dating confirms Indigenous Mexican manuscript predates Spanish conquest (details) (details)
• DNA suggests crops and livestock reached northwestern China without mass migration (details) (details)
• Homeowner discovers Denmark’s largest Viking silver treasure (details)
• Aboriginal artists used giant Rainbow Serpents to reinforce traditions during colonization (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Hidden Inka roads reveal new side of Machu Picchu (details) (details)
• 6,500-year-old ritual center tracked solar and lunar events (details)
• 11,000-year-old statue shows human mastering a leopard (details)
• Ancient DNA confirms cacao reached Mississippian people (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Bone analysis indicates that Ireland’s “Kerry Cow” was actually a bear (details)
• First evidence of Neanderthal presence in Arabian desert (details) (details)
• 4,000-year-old Austronesian painting recalls one of history’s greatest migrations (details)
• Mysterious grave good reveals pre-Inca metal processing networks (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Newly discovered papal letter indicates support for Norman Conquest (details)
• Translation of Linear A links Minoan and Greek gods (details) (details)
• Pre-Hispanic Colombians collaboratively built water management systems (details) (details)
• Newly excavated Anatolian Church may be the site for the First Council of Nicaea (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• New excavations reveal how Moche potters lived and worked at Cerro Mayal (details)
• Sugar may have fueled human brain evolution, not just meat (details)
• Ancient DNA suggests Ice Age people hunted more female mammoths than males (details)
• Scattered bones may point to violence at a Roman villa in Britain (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Ancient Amazon civilization reshapes understanding of rainforest history (details) (details)
• Byzantine shipwreck yields remarkable gold treasure (details)
• Ghost DNA study uncovers unknown human ancestors (details) (details)
• Newly identified Assyrian kings reshape ancient royal history (details) (details)