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.
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
Danish island spider stones; Japanese tunnel-tomb grave goods; deformed skulls in pre-Inca Peru; Paleolithic burials of disabled children in Russia
Bone measurements match Amelia Earhart; trucker damages Nazca lines; medieval chess piece in Norway; LiDAR survey finds thousands of Maya sites
Priestess tomb in Egypt; ancient Mexican burial with interlocking arms; early Christian church in northern Anatolia; revised production history for medieval Book of Kells
US shipwreck could be last slaver; Nigerian glass was indigenous; Mesolithic red crayon in northern England; artifacts eroding from Norway glaciers
Aztec plague identified; new early Aegean city-state; copper arrow tips in Yukon; First Etruscan site on Sardinia
Early Scythian tomb in eastern Russia; reading material of Blackbeard’s pirates; hundreds of hand-axes at Israel Paleolithic site; Moche throne room in Peru
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.