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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Million year old tools in Catalonia; Ottoman shrine and mosque in Hungary; very ancient site in New Brunswick; city formation evidenced at Iraqi Kurdistan mound.
Native American Georgia homestead; Belgium pollen reflects medieval diet; Irish bog butter; Chalcolithic rockshelter livestock pens in northern Spain.
Bronze in Alaska; new text on Antikythera Mechanism; new DNA study on Australia’s Mungo Man; satellite pics enable new Petra discovery.
King Tut’s meteoritic iron dagger; Maya observatory tracked Venus: writing from early Roman London; microbes made faux Greek ruins.
Chinese brewery 5000 years old; historical Idaho massacre located; stalagmite structure built by Neanderthals; high-altitude rock paintings in France.
Jewelry from jawbones in Oaxaca; Revolutionary War period discoveries in Philadelphia; merger of Egyptians and Nubians; Israel shipwreck from time of Constantine.
Swedish runestone deciphered; horse racing in Roman Turkey; Jamestown cooking grill; Captain Cook ship in Rhode Island
Buddhist shrine in Pakistan; rare Etruscan writing; island builders in south Florida; mosaic from Roman Antioch
Roman villa in England; Nazca tunnels from space; building erected by Egyptian queen; Spanish Paleolithic hand stencils
Reproducing Mesolithic headdresses; ancient Israel literacy on pottery shards; Montana burns reveal ancient features; Catholic priest tomb in Aztec temple
Megalith on Mediterranean island; animal dung marks Hannibal route; underwater city on India coastline; meta-analysis highlights South America population shifts
Possible second Viking site in Newfoundland; violent death of Ramses III; assessing ISIS damage to Palmyra; rare Etruscan stone inscription