Episodes

  • Audio News for February 9th through the 15th, 2025

    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)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for February 2nd through the 8th, 2025

    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)
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    12 mins
  • Audio News for January 26th through February 1st, 2025

    Audio News for January 26th through February 1st, 2025
    Feb 3 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)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for January 19th through the 25th, 2025

    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)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for January 12th through the 18th, 2025

    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)
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    15 mins
  • Audio News for January 5th through the 11th, 2025

    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)
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    14 mins
  • Audio News for December 29th, 2024, through January 4th, 2025

    Audio News for December 29th, 2024, through January 4th, 2025
    Jan 6 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)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for December 22nd through the 28th, 2024

    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)
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    15 mins