Episodes

  • Audio News for June 15th through the 21st, 2025

    Audio News for June 15th through the 21st, 2025
    Jun 23 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Ancient dog DNA reveals connection between dog migration and farming spread into South America (details)(details)
    • New evidence confirms great age of New Mexico footprints (details)(details)
    • Ancient Roman city of Metlosedum found in modern day Melun (details)
    • Noble Viking burials found in Denmark (details)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for June 8th through the 14th, 2025

    Audio News for June 8th through the 14th, 2025
    Jun 16 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • First-of-its-kind Roman artifact unearthed in Ireland (details)
    • Dental study reveals the story of the domestication of wild boars in early Neolithic China (details)(details)
    • Excavation reveals centuries of Veracruz history from the Aztec Empire to the present day (details)
    • Computer simulation assists archaeologists in mapping millennia-long Neanderthal migration (details)(details)
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    11 mins
  • Audio News for June 1st through the 7th, 2025

    Audio News for June 1st through the 7th, 2025
    Jun 9 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Artificial intelligence model utilized to date handwriting on Dead Sea Scrolls (details) (details)
    • Expansive, Millenia-Old Indigenous American crop fields indicate high-level social organization (details)
    • Royal tomb in Turkey may belong to the relative of a legendary King (details)
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    • Stone Age technological adaptations reveal far-reaching cultural exchange among Philippine islands (details) (details)
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    12 mins
  • Audio News for May 25th through the 31st, 2025

    Audio News for May 25th through the 31st, 2025
    Jun 2 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • New genomic testing sheds light on collapse of Maya civilization (details) (details)
    • 7,000-year study of desert monuments reflects climate shift (details) (details)
    • Presumed Iron Age Roman war cemetery actually holds pre-Roman British infighting casualties (details) (details)
    • Vast slave burial site uncovered in Brazil (details)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for May 18th through the 24th, 2025

    Audio News for May 18th through the 24th, 2025
    May 26 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Political events and cultural shifts influenced the genetic landscape of Spain (details) (details)
    • Tomb and artifacts uncovered in ancient Peruvian citadel (details)
    • Indonesian sea floor gives up two Homo erectus skull fragments (details) (details)
    • Rare ebony African figurines uncovered in Israel (details)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for May 11th through the 17th, 2025

    Audio News for May 11th through the 17th, 2025
    May 19 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • New study of obsidian artifacts in Mexico points to large Mesoamerican trading network (details)(details)
    • Research team uncovers diversity of pregnancy depictions among Viking age communities (details)(details)
    • Excavation of new ancient relief depicts last great Assyrian king (details)
    • Scientific analysis undermines hypothesis behind burial place of Macedonia’s Phillip II (details)(details)
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Audio News for May 4th through the 10th, 2025

    Audio News for May 4th through the 10th, 2025
    May 12 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Philodemus’ lost work identified in the charred Herculaneum papyri (details)
    • From Britain to the Mediterranean: tracing Bronze Age tin trade across civilizations (details)(details)
    • wo swastika-engraved swords discovered in an ancient Celtic necropolis in France (details)
    • Uncovering ancient ritual drug use at pre-Inca site in Peru (details)
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    13 mins
  • Audio News for April 27th through May 3rd, 2025

    Audio News for April 27th through May 3rd, 2025
    May 5 2025
    News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
    • Genetic study fills in the story of New Mexico tribe’s Chaco Canyon ancestry (details) (details)
    • Luxor obelisk may have displayed “propaganda” praising Ramesses II (details)
    • Ancient human settlement on Scottish island reveals previously unknown extent of nomadic travel (details) (details)
    • Milky Way Galaxy identified in ancient Egyptian burial art (details) (details)
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    13 mins