News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study suggests "Dragon Man" skull may reveal what a Denisovan’s face looked like ( details ) ( details ) Ancient Egyptian city of Imet was a thriving urban area ( details ) Research shows a large increase in human use of fire 50,000 years ago ( details ) Vanished civilization's ancient temple uncovered in South America ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient dog DNA reveals connection between dog migration and farming spread into South America ( details )( details ) New evidence confirms great age of New Mexico footprints ( details )( details ) Ancient Roman city of Metlosedum found in modern day Melun ( details ) Noble Viking burials found in Denmark ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First-of-its-kind Roman artifact unearthed in Ireland ( details ) Dental study reveals the story of the domestication of wild boars in early Neolithic China ( details )( details ) Excavation reveals centuries of Veracruz history from the Aztec Empire to the present day ( details ) Computer simulation assists archaeologists in mapping millennia-long Neanderthal migration ( details )( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Artificial intelligence model utilized to date handwriting on Dead Sea Scrolls ( details ) ( details ) Expansive, Millenia-Old Indigenous American crop fields indicate high-level social organization ( details ) Royal tomb in Turkey may belong to the relative of a legendary King ( details ) ( details ) Stone Age technological adaptations reveal far-reaching cultural exchange among Philippine islands ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New genomic testing sheds light on collapse of Maya civilization ( details ) ( details ) 7,000-year study of desert monuments reflects climate shift ( details ) ( details ) Presumed Iron Age Roman war cemetery actually holds pre-Roman British infighting casualties ( details ) ( details ) Vast slave burial site uncovered in Brazil ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Political events and cultural shifts influenced the genetic landscape of Spain ( details ) ( details ) Tomb and artifacts uncovered in ancient Peruvian citadel ( details ) Indonesian sea floor gives up two Homo erectus skull fragments ( details ) ( details ) Rare ebony African figurines uncovered in Israel ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study of obsidian artifacts in Mexico points to large Mesoamerican trading network ( details )( details ) Research team uncovers diversity of pregnancy depictions among Viking age communities ( details )( details ) Excavation of new ancient relief depicts last great Assyrian king ( details ) Scientific analysis undermines hypothesis behind burial place of Macedonia’s Phillip II ( details )( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Philodemus’ lost work identified in the charred Herculaneum papyri ( details ) From Britain to the Mediterranean: tracing Bronze Age tin trade across civilizations ( details )( details ) wo swastika-engraved swords discovered in an ancient Celtic necropolis in France ( details ) Uncovering ancient ritual drug use at pre-Inca site in Peru ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Genetic study fills in the story of New Mexico tribe’s Chaco Canyon ancestry ( details ) ( details ) Luxor obelisk may have displayed “propaganda” praising Ramesses II ( details ) Ancient human settlement on Scottish island reveals previously unknown extent of nomadic travel ( details ) ( details ) Milky Way Galaxy identified in ancient Egyptian burial art ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study finds first physical evidence for Roman era human-animal gladiatorial combat in Europe ( details ) ( details ) Ancient DNA shows Punic people had virtually no Levantine ancestors ( details ) Ancient DNA shows Punic people had virtually no Levantine ancestors ( details ) Mongolia's earliest pottery is 2,000 years older than previously thought ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study reveals that social inequality isn’t inevitable ( details ) ( details ) Human remains in Texas show evidence of ancient cultural practices ( details ) Research indicates domestic cats originated in Tunisia ( details ) ( details ) ( details ) Tree ring study indicates drought led to barbarians attacking Roman Britain ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Extremely rare Denisovan jawbone confirms human cousins spread across Asia ( details )( details ) Teotihuacan Altar found in Guatemala reveals cultural crossover in thriving city-state of Tikal ( details )( details )( details ) Ancient tools from a South African cave reveal interactions among prehistoric peoples ( details ) North Macedonian ruins might be the lost capital of the Kingdom of Lyncestis ( details )( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Kach Kouch in Morocco shows Bronze Age habitation, refuting past narratives of emptiness ( details ) ( details ) Middle Paleolithic people in China developed innovative stone tools ( details ) Researchers find ancient weapon system in Texas caves ( details ) ( details ) Sutton Hoo helmet likely originated in Scandinavia ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New evidence from Basur Höyük reveals egalitarian funerary practices in Bronze Age Mesopotamia ( details ) ( details ) Starch granules and the cultural significance of geophytes in Western North America during Prehistoric times ( details ) ( details ) Devastating wildfires threaten South Korea's cultural heritage and historic sites ( details ) Ritual and care: analyzing the dog remains from the Nescot shaft in Roman Britain ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study shows monument discovered in the 80s is two centuries older than Stonehenge ( details ) ( details ) Egyptian colonial cemetery reveals pyramid tombs weren't only for the elite ( details ) ( details ) First evidence of human habitation on the Tibetan Plateau during "unsurvivable" Last Glacial Maximum ( details ) ( details ) 133 Pre-Columbian artifacts returned to Honduras after decades in a Paris museum ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study illuminates the important relationship between Neanderthals and modern humans ( details ) ( details ) Ancient DNA reveals relationships between Stone Age Europeans and North Africans ( details ) ( details ) Mysterious Pre-Columbian burial investigated in Ecuador ( details ) ( details ) Ancient Greek burial monument located near Corinth ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Sophisticated irrigation system uncovered in ancient city of Eridu ( details ) ( details ) Migration, not culture, influenced Europe’s Celtic languages ( details ) ( details ) Ancient ceramic “puppets” in El Salvador show Central American connections ( details ) ( details ) World’s oldest bone tools reported from Olduvai Gorge ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Fossilized track marks indicate earliest known use of handcarts ( details )( details ) DNA tracing confirms complex genetic backgrounds of the Huns ( details )( details ) Super heating and cooling from Vesuvius eruption caused glass brain ( details )( details ) Research summary: Göbekli Tepe was a domestic site ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: King Thutmose II’s tomb found, the first royal burial discovery in over a century ( details )( details )( details ) Laser technology uncovers intricate fifteenth century Zapotec city ( details )( details ) Plague epidemics likely started a century before the Black Death ( details )( details ) Excavation uncovers section of Great Wall 300 years older than previous estimates ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists uncover Silla Kingdom palace site, revealing royal structures and advanced engineering ( details ) Ancient skeletons found in the Thames may indicate Bronze and Iron Age conflicts ( details ) Study uncovers complex genetic origins of the Fulani, one of Africa’s largest pastoral groups ( details ) ( details ) 2,000-year-old ancient tombs discovered in Colombia by local waffle chain ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roots of Indo-European languages revealed by ancient DNA ( details ) ( details ) Arabic manuscript contains lost works of the Greek “Great Geometer” Apollonius ( details ) Changes in North American Indigenous population outlined by radiocarbon-dated artifacts ( details ) Interdisciplinary team peers inside Mount Vesuvius-damaged scroll ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: English seaside residence identified as the lost site of King Harold's 11th-century home ( details )( details ) Unique drainage and irrigation system supported Amazon's first grain-based agrarian economy ( details )( details ) Roman sanctuary discovered deep within Spain’s key Paleolithic site ( details ) DNA research traces the human-influenced development of sheep genomes over 12 millennia ( details )( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldest known presence of hominins in Europe found in Romania ( details ) ( details ) Volcanic ash may have helped develop ancient Bolivian city ( details ) Human effort made Australia’s earth rings ( details ( details )) Ancient trade between strangers may explain the creation of money ( details )( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Amelia Earhart’s airplane possibly discovered in satellite imagery ( details ) Archaeologists find underground Inca tunnel system ( details ) Iron Age Celtic communities in Britain based on female lineage ( details ) ( details ) Excavators uncover opulent Pompeii bathhouse ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Anglo-Saxon connections with Byzantium shown in Sutton Hoo burials ( details ) ( details ) Pottery production in Iraq shows evidence of early specialization dating back 8,000 years ( details ) Ancient DNA and human migrations shed light on the genetic history of Indonesia ( details ) ( details ) Strontium isotope map used to decode the mystery of the origins of wildlife and individuals in the past ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Possible burial of a female medieval warrior located in Hungary ( details )( details ) New DNA analysis method brings historic European migrations into focus ( details )( details ) Eighteenth-century Russian cargo unearthed from a Caspian Sea shipwreck in Iran ( details ) ( details ) Colonial-era angel murals unearthed at historic Boston church ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Spectacular shipwreck bearing 10,000 ceramics lay untouched in Aegean for over a millennium ( details ) Ancient genomes reveal Bronze Age branching of Indo-European language groups ( details ) ( details ) Villa double the size of US White House revealed within ancient Assyrian capital ( details )( details ) 1,500-year-old Peruvian tomb holds teenage human sacrifices to family members ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Silver amulet may reveal spread of Christianity north of the Alps ( details ) Remains of 40 people from the Bronze Age reveal violent deaths ( details ) ( details ) Site of Alexander the Great’s most important battle is located ( details ) Syphilis started in the Americas, not Europe ( details ) ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists uncover sarcophagus that may belong to Saint Nicholas ( details ) Two studies support new date of Neanderthals interbreeding with humans ( details ) Manot Cave shows evidence of earliest communal ritual on Asian continent ( details ) ( details ) President Andrew Jackson’s slave cemetery found on his property ( details )...
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New findings from Shakhi Kora evidence the first government system dates back to the 4th millennium ( details ) ( details ) Ancient undeciphered script found on tablet in Georgia ( details ) ( details ) New Alaska discoveries push human-canid relationship record back 2,000 years ( details ) ( details ) Archaeologists discover hidden treasures beneath Notre Dame Cathedral during reconstruction ( details )...
