News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Medieval female warrior in Hungary; DNA reveals historic European migrations; 18th-century Russian ship in Iran; and angel murals in old Boston church.
Jan 6
12 min
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Aegean shipwreck with 10,000 plates; genomes reflect Indo-European language branching; huge villa in Assyrian capital; and ancient Peruvian tomb with family members sacrificed.
Dec 30, 2024
14 min
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early Christian amulet in Germany; Bronze Age massacre in Britain; Alexander the Great battle site; and syphilis origin in the Americas.
Dec 23, 2024
12 min
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Saint Nicholas sarcophagus; Neanderthal-modern human interbreeding date; oldest communal ritual; and Andrew Jackson slave cemetery.
Dec 16, 2024
13 min
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early government control in northern Iraq; undeciphered script on Georgian tablet; early human-canid relationship in Alaska; and discoveries beneath Notre Dame Cathedral.
Dec 7, 2024
12 min
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Site in Spain with Europe’s first pre-planned stone tools; more Liangzhu dams; pre-Maya canals for fishing in Belize; and Kenya footprints of different simultaneous hominins.
Dec 2, 2024
11 min
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldest alphabet; hidden text in Blue Qur’an; natural selection in ancient DNA; and forgotten Bermuda settlement.
Nov 25, 2024
11 min
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Precise location of ancient Islamic battle; early Maya salt production in Belize; manual dexterity in australopithecines; and earlier date for Greek Renaissance.
Nov 18, 2024
13 min
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform; DNA of Pompeii body casts; Ice Age stone tablets picturing fishing nets;
and child sacrifice in Peru.
Nov 11, 2024
14 min
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Temple of Poseidon in Greece; Polynesians' southernmost voyage; Maya urbanism in Campeche; and Bronze Age settlement at Saudi oasis.
Nov 4, 2024
12 min
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