Audio News from Archaeologica
The news of the week in audio, brought to you by The Archaeology Channel, is compiled and written by Michelle Hilling of Archaeologica and read by Laura Pettigrew. The audio news is compiled from Archaeologica’s daily news updates. The musical interludes are original compositions by Anthony Pettigrew.
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Audio News from Archaeologica 9 June - 15 June 2013
Many species in Aztec sacrifices; fabled lost city in Cambodia; ancient princess burial in Kazakhstan; cancer in Neanderthal rib
Audio News from Archaeologica 2 June - 8 June 2013
Letter from Robert the Bruce; jasper stone suggests first European-Native American contact; first wine-making in France; decapitated ball player statue in Mexico.
Audio News from Archaeologica 26 May - 1 June 2013
South African shaman rain-making site; Italian team to excavate Cahokia; Egyptians and meteorite iron; Civil War prison camp in Georgia
Audio News from Archaeologica 19 May - 25 May 2013
Copper coins suggest early contact with Australia; Roman city threatened in Egypt; remarkable new rock art discovery in Mexico; Bahrain excavations focus on ancient civilizations.
Audio News from Archaeologica 12 May - 18 May 2013
Maya pyramid in Belize bulldozed; huge Byzantine mosaic in Israel; early Maori burials examined in New Zealand; summertime conception in ancient Egypt.
Audio News from Archaeologica 05 May - 11 May 2013
Newly discovered lines on the ground in Peru; the hanging garden may have been in Nineveh; new technology maps underwater town in Britain; late Roman Period burials in Germany have plague DNA.
Audio News from Archaeologica 28 April - 04 May 2013
Yellow clay balls at Teotihuacan; megalithic tombs in the UAR; Jamestown cannibalism; lost Swedish rune stone reappears
Audio News from Archaeologica 21 Apr - 27 Apr 2013
Mexican rock art shows a priest figure; wealthy British woman buried 4400 years ago; Romanian Romeo and Juliet burial; town for Egyptian pyramid builders reveals details of lives and society.
Audio News from Archaeologica 14 Apr - 20 Apr 2013
Celtic burials near Paris; Australian rock art demonstrably very old; new evidence of prehistoric Gulf Coast port in Mexico; medieval recipes in England to be tasted
Audio News from Archaeologica 7 Apr - 13 Apr 2013
Maya and European dates synchronized; stone cairn in Sea of Galilee; late Pleistocene pottery used for fish; digital imaging of Easter Island statue
Audio News from Archaeologica 31 Mar - 6 Apr 2013
Jewish life in Middle Ages Cologne; 2000-year-old battering ram; Egyptian cemetery from little-known 17th Dynasty; American Revolutionary War prisoner-of-war camp.
Audio News from Archaeologica 24 Mar - 30 Mar 2013
Open-pit mine in Afghanistan reveals Buddhist city; Foreign excavation at Ur; American Southwest social networks; Greco-Roman mythological shrine.