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Audio News from Archaeologica

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Laura Pettigrew

Laura Kennedy,
Voice of the Audio News.


The news of the week in audio, for many years compiled and written by the late Michelle Hilling of Archaeologica, is now the product of our dedicated volunteer team. Read by Laura Kennedy, the Audio News is compiled from Archaeologica’s daily news updates. The musical interludes are original compositions by Anthony Pettigrew. 

 

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Amazing new Saqqara discoveries; surprisingly ancient signs of intentional cooking; human remains from Revolutionary War battlefield; New Mexico footprints dating contested.

Tuscany spring with Etruscan and Roman artifacts; tunnel beneath temple near Alexandria; some Southwestern parrot bones may be local; ivory comb in Israel with oldest alphabetic sentence.

South American DNA; rare Ogham inscription in Scotland; commercial district in Ephesus; DNA of watermelon.

Roman Villa Included Heating System; Assyrian bas-reliefs Survived ISIS; Lowered River’s Spooky Finds; Oldest U.K. DNA Shows Two Populations.

 Ancient Roman Mosaic; Viking Replication of Roman Burial Ways; Neanderthal Family Life; Seasonal Use of Neolithic Wood Henge.

 Pipeline Dig Uncovers Ancient Tombs; Taiwan Cave Finds Support Lore; Ancient Armenian DNA Tells Plant Use; Drone Sees Ancient City Footprint

 Giant Hercules statue; copper smelting in the Negev; Viking Age glass bead-making; ancient canal in Alabama

 Mercury pollution at ancient Maya sites; artificial islands in British Isles; Egyptian sarcophagus belonged to statesman; Baltic warship wreck

Gold funeral mask in China; genetics of Anglo-Saxons; ancient Wisconsin canoe; Neolithic structure near Prague

'Earlier humans' animal husbandry; Evidence for Welsh legendary islands; Byzantine mosaic uncovered; Viking textiles evince female power.

World’s earliest amputation; Turtle Mound sea level threat; Medieval massacre of Jews; Island Cave’s ten thousand years of meetings

Lost branch of the Nile; threats to Hagia Sophia; Zanzibar Stone Town; Rhode Island whaling ship in Argentina