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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Laura Pettigrew, voice of the Audio News.
Newly discovered ancient city in northern Iraq; thousand-year-old pot in Utah; ancient horse cast at Pompeii; Egyptian general’s tomb has remarkable wall paintings
Ancient Roman-German battle site on the Rhine; possible Homo erectus site in the Philippines; Diocletian inscription in Bulgaria; mass sacrifice of children in Peru
Goose in Denmark as Roman influence; Nubian tomb with horse; Siberian wooden Ice-Age sculpture; no evidence for Carib cannibalism
Ancient surgery on cow; Maya city of La Corona; Baltic Island treasure; newly translated magical papyrus
Palace of first Ankor ruler; medieval Italian with knife for hand; extra limbs in Peru burials; a die for cheaters in Norway
Greco-Roman temple at Egyptian oasis; DNA identifies mummy head; deep Swiss shafts as Roman refrigerators; Peruvian geoglyphs older than Nasca lines
Buddha-like doll in Japan; prehistoric footprints on British Columbia coast; mummy remains in Australia; more support for dense prehistoric Amazon population.
Hatshepsut sculpture in Wales; Guadalcanal shipwreck searchers find the Juneau; Viking houses in Dublin; new Pompeii excavations
Middle-East bead in early China; Orkney Islands Iron Age feast; early Greek port in Naples; study of English colonial shipboard food
Ancient espionage structures in Rome; search narrows for Viking settlement in Canada; Nubian necropolis; world’s oldest message-in-a-bottle
Undersea burial site in Florida; Roman boxing gloves in England; medieval port on Gulf of Aqaba in Jordan; medieval pilgrim’s ring in Israel
Yucatan cave complex yields Maya finds; how Roman priests survived the gates of hell; ancient Japanese banquet hall; ruler statues at Kushite temple in Sudan