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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Roman board game in Slovakia; Aztec rain god shrine; scanning technique to read invisible papyri; DNA reveals ancient Alaskan population.
Satellite photos reveal Syrian Bronze Age forts; rare flaked stone tool in Nova Scotia; early Chinese bronze mirror in Japan; Viking climate adaptation in the far north.
Ancient Turkic site in eastern Mongolia; Egyptian connections in Jericho; temple ruins in Cuzco; ancient Cyprus theater.
Cave paintings on Indonesian island; Bronze Age burial near Loch Ness; distinctive indigenous group in Peru; bronze vessels in ancient Chinese tomb.
Pre-Columbian rock art in Venezuela; graves of Delaware’s earliest non-Native settlers; China tomb with surprisingly early imperial links; Norwegian whetstone has runes.
Location of Caesar invasion of Britain; Indus Valley settlements not on rivers; sea level rise projection of site lost in southeastern US; medieval Jewish ritual bath in France
3000 year old submerged castle in Turkey; orca-shaped geoglyph in Peruvian desert; engraved stone and axes in Egypt’s Aswan; statistical analysis of Bronze Age cuneiform tablets locates lost cities
Coin stash in medieval French abbey; fire at 4000 year old temple in Peru; study of worldwide social inequity; dogs on leashes in Arabian rock art
Engraved Roman sundial; pre-Incan site lacks social hierarchy; finely engraved sealstone in Mycenean Greece; early royal baths in China
Puerto Rican cave art; Egyptian woman at King Solomon’s Mines; Chinese tomb with chariots; carved stone with Pictish warrior
Samurai handbook translation; Coptic tombstone on Avenue of Sphinxes; Search for Jamestown leader’s remains; earliest astrolabe found off Oman
Saudi Arabian stone walls, silver Viking box brooch, Greek Bronze Age temple, Beothuk DNA study