News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman shipwreck held fish sauce (details)(details) New linguistic model shows four waves of migration into the Americas (details)(details) Microarchaeology provides new precision for early history of Jerusalem (details)(details) English study shows leprosy could come from Medieval red squirrels (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Pueblo communicated through conch-shell trumpets (details) Ritual and medicinal plant DNA preserved under ancient Maya ball court (details)(details) Neanderthal woman’s face is reconstructed (details) Paleolithic North African hunter-gatherers ate plant-based diet (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA analysis illuminates social practices of an ancient Eurasian warrior empire (details)(details)(details) Preserved Pre-Revolutionary War cherries unearthed at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (details)(details) Rare structures may have guided Neolithic farmers to the afterlife (details)(details) Interdisciplinary research team to investigate whether Stonehenge was designed for lunar alignment (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 18th Century cleft palate prosthesis found in mouth of Polish crypt skeleton (details)(details)(details) Excavations off Great Barrier Reef prove early Aboriginal Australians crafted pottery (details)(details) Analysis of pyramid damage suggests Teotihuacan suffered through five damaging earthquakes (details)(details) Genomic study proves Blackfoot Confederacy historical rights with lineage tracing to Late Pleistocene (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly discovered Pompeii paintings tell of the Trojan War (details) New research in Tonga reveals high population living in low-density city system (details) Virginia dig at historic log house documents Black American life after Civil War (details) 1800-year-old clay seal reveals name of Sassanid city (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Air Force unit in New Mexico uncovers prehistoric site (details) Paleolithic wooden tools from Germany show diverse woodworking techniques (details) (details) Eggshells from Central Asian sites show the rapid spread of domesticated chickens (details) (details) Sand sculpture on South African coast suggests origin of representational art (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Horse trading in Medieval Europe was crucial part of everyday life (details)(details) Iranian Plateau served as hub for early human migration (details)(details) Ancient Peru experienced violence and crisis during political upheaval (details) Island time capsule in northwestern Australia (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Aztec books depicting life before the Spanish now publicly owned (details) Food study points to interactions between South Americans and Polynesians (details) Preserved remains of English Bronze Age village reveal details of daily life (details) Sophisticated canoes shine light on technical skills in the Neolithic Mediterranean (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 3,300-year-old clay tablet describes cataclysmic invasion of four Hittite Empire cities (details)(details) Largest ever South Asian whole-genome analysis points to single major migration to India from Africa 50,000 years ago (details)(details) Mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg could be largest ever in Europe (details)(details)(details) Oldest known bead in the Western Hemisphere discovered in Wyoming (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 14 wrecked ships in Bahamas may offer insight to life in the slave trade (details) 7,000-year-old burial cave in Spain includes Neanderthal-era goat bones (details) Oldest stone tools in Europe hint strongly at east-to-west migration (details) Medieval Spanish astrolabe has both Islamic and Hebrew inscriptions (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Danish gold ring suggests ties to important kingdom (details) Neanderthal tool design reveals higher-level thinking (details)(details) Historic armor reveals aspects of early colonial America (details) Local origins of the mysterious multicultural mummies in far western China (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Mesolithic megastructure in the Baltic Sea offers insight into early hunter-gatherers (details)(details) Patagonian rock art served as a generational communication tool (details)(details) Stone Age skeleton study reveals life story (details)(details)(details) New radiocarbon dating suggests independence of the Rongorongo script (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Spanish Bronze Age gold hoard contains meteorite metal (details)(details) Archaeologists discover Roman era bone container filled with poisonous seeds (details)(details) Transition from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to farmers was a violent affair (details)(details)(details) Fascinating but challenging Amazon rainforest caves reveal their secrets (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: German cave shows modern humans replaced Neanderthals locally by 45,000 years ago (details)(details) Footprints on a Moroccan beach are oldest human trackway from the region (details) Salvage dig in looted Maya tomb uncovers jade mosaic mask (details) Cold, dry years may have made plagues worse during the Roman Empire (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeomagnetic dating pinpoints construction of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate (details) Amateur archaeologists unearth a Roman dodecahedron in central England (details) Peruvian sites show even early hunters lived mostly on plant foods (details) New analysis confirms which relatives of Alexander the Great occupy the royal tombs of Macedonia (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Gum disease, tooth decay common among Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (details) Like-new 14th century gauntlet discovered in Switzerland (details) New study reveals origins of western Europeans (details) Woolly mammoths shared habitat with earliest human settlements in Alaska (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First Roman tombs dug directly into rock found in Egypt (details) Colossal Bronze Age rampart discovered around one of Arabia's longest oases (details) (details) Deep in Amazon rainforest, lasers reveal oldest cities yet (details) (details) (details) Grave of tall man with long sword may shed light on medieval union of Nordic countries (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cerne Giant was probably Hercules, and rallied early Medieval farmers fighting off Viking invaders (details) New palace found in central China, dating to fabled Xia Dynasty (details) Archaeologists at Tulum find Maya burial cave (details) Bronze buckles from central Europe may show beliefs of lost pagan cult (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study shows how quickly Patagonian natives adopted the horse (details) Europe’s first mega-sites thrived on a mostly vegetarian diet (details) Now underwater, northwest Australia’s continental shelf once was settled (details) Pompeii dig finds group of terracotta figurines honoring the cult goddess Cybele (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Discovery of cat and human-like figures on geoglyphs in Peru (details) New proof that Viking dentistry was remarkably advanced (details) Dental anthropologists connect all Native Americans to one East Asian migration (details) Cutting edge forensics show how nomadic man in ancient Britain ended up far from home (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Mongolia may be home to modern horse-riding equipment (details) Excavation of Pompeiian bakery shows the grim life of enslaved people (details) New Mesa Verde area rock art finds show complex cosmology and motifs (details) Curse invoking Beelzebub found in medieval German latrine (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Neolithic builders used simple tools, complex planning to build the Menga Dolmen (details) DNA research shows Slavic migration into the Balkans began in late Roman times (details) In Siberia, world's oldest fortress challenges view of how societies developed (details) Ruins of first rural Wari Empire complex unearthed in Peru (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bone biographies” tell tales of medieval England’s common folk (details) New insights into 9,000 year-old shaman and infant burial (details) New study suggests Maya purified water with plants (details) Ancient carved trees shine light on Wiradjuri culture (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 2,000 clay stamps found in ancient Roman municipal archive building (details) Ancient Egyptian baboon DNA reveals location of fabled port city of Punt (details) Ancient DNA reveals Uto-Aztecan languages spread to California 1,000 years earlier than thought (details) Archaeologists identify civilization-saving technology of ancient Sumerians (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Melting ice in British Columbia reveals many sites with bone, wood and obsidian tools (details) New site in southwest Norway may be earliest evidence of regional agriculture (details) Lion mosaic found above theater in northwestern Turkey, used by Roman cult (details) Study of Aboriginal agriculture aims to help Australia become more sustainable (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ukrainian skull fragments produce genomic links to modern Europeans (details) Mass burial of headless skeletons chronicles violent end to Chinese Neolithic village (details) Stunning find of over 30,000 Fourth Century bronze coins hints at Mediterranean shipwreck (details) Maya architecture at Edzná and Chichén Itzá shows long distance links (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Evidence of human blood, bodily fluids, and psychotropic drugs found in ancient Egyptian mug (details) (details) Circular structure’s possible link to Maya serpent deity may be key to true identity of El Tigre (details) 700-year-old shipwreck reveals prosperity of China’s Maritime Silk Road (details) Evidence of ancient violence indicates earlier-than-thought warfare in Europe (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ming dynasty stone grenades found in Great Wall dig (details) Mexico releases statement about huge painted stone snake head (details) Odd rock in medieval French painting is million-year-old Acheulean hand axe (details) Technology helped Saharan kingdom tap an underground aquifer (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Thriving Copper Age settlements in Spain were independent and cooperative (details) Evidence of fire in Portuguese cave reveals Neanderthal intelligence (details) Carbon dating cave art reveals new starting point for Puerto Rican history (details) Computer student uses AI to decipher first word from carbonized Roman scrolls (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals (details) Mummified poop reveals pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean consumed a diversity of plants (details) Research finds dramatic increase in cranial traumas as the first cities were being built, suggesting a rise in violence (details) Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals (details) Mummified poop reveals pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean consumed a diversity of plants (details) Research finds dramatic increase in cranial traumas as the first cities were being built, suggesting a rise in violence (details) Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Thousands of still-hidden structures indicate vast Pre-Columbian societies in Amazon Rain Forest (details) Prehistoric cosmic airburst forced transition from foraging to farming (details) Researchers discover that a lush land route channeled early humans out of Africa (details)(details) Evidence of human cannibalism as a cultural funerary practice (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Chinese tomb inscription confirms Zhou Dynasty’s lethal power struggles (details) Analysis of Texas mummy reveals painful death, and diet of grasshoppers (details) New tablet from Hittite Empire capital records previously unknown early language (details) Arrow found under melting glacier in Norway still has arrowhead and feathers intact (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Black earth in the Amazon has captured carbon for centuries (details) Sunken port city in Egypt reveals new treasures (details) Early hominids built wood structures long before Homo sapiens (details) Antler comb analysis shows Viking trade routes reached the Arctic (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 2,700 year-old skeleton found in Turkey may confirm Ayanis earthquake (details) Ancient footprints suggest humans wore shoes during the Middle Stone Age (details) 3th-century artifacts found on Darb al-Hajj route likely used in magic rituals (details) 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy with full head of hair found in Lima, Peru (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rare Chinese chime bells date to Spring and Autumn period (details) Underwater Florida find may be early form of diving bell (details) Four Roman swords found in Dead Sea cave (details) Loss of Pleistocene big game could have been trigger for better hunting tools (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bee pollen debunks famous Neanderthal flower burial (details) New genetic model suggests humans once risked extinction (details) Wildfires set by post-Pleistocene humans in southern California permanently altered the ecosystem (details) Skeletons unearthed at Civil War battlefield could give insight into soldiers’ lives (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Proteins on ancient cauldrons give first look at Bronze Age menu (details) Mount Zion discovery reveals evidence of two Jerusalem destructions (details) (details) Thunder worshipers did pre-Inca stomp on giant drum-like dance floor (details) (details) Breakthrough extraction of DNA from 2,900-year-old brick reveals plant time capsule (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: China's ancient water pipe networks show no evidence of centralized state authority (details) Genome study reveals that Iceman Ötzi had dark skin and male pattern baldness (details) Medieval girl buried face down, ankles possibly tied, to prevent return from the grave (details) Sea sequin bling links Indonesian islands' ancient communities (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age pyramid in Kazakhstan provides insight into Eurasian steppe civilizations (details) DNA indicates earlier arrival of African cattle in the Americas (details) Europe’s oldest stilt village discovered in Lake Orhid, Albania (details) 300,000-year-old teen jawbone points to unknown human lineage (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Medieval features found under Exeter Cathedral in England (details) Mexico City dig uncovers village from the Teotihuacan period (details) Old Dutch fort in Ghana may hide traces of the first English slave fort in Africa (details) Bronze Age arrowhead from Swiss site made from meteorite that fell in Estonia (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 300,000-year-old throwing stick reveals early human ingenuity (details) (details) Analysis of an Iron Age burial in Britain shows the warrior was a woman (details) (details) Indigenous cultural perspectives may help save Louisiana’s coastline (details) Researchers find evidence of oldest curry outside India (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 300,000-year-old throwing stick reveals early human ingenuity (details) (details) Analysis of an Iron Age burial in Britain shows the warrior was a woman (details) (details) Indigenous cultural perspectives may help save Louisiana’s coastline (details) Researchers find evidence of oldest curry outside India (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Benjamin Franklin's innovative anti-counterfeiting tactics for early paper money (details) Vast labyrinth of ancient passages to the underworld revealed by cutting-edge imaging (details) Abandoned monastery ruins reveal gold coins hidden during attack (details) Neolithic polishing stone is second ever discovered in situ in England (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Remarkable mosaic discoveries and synagogue reconstruction: unveiling ancient Jewish artifacts in Huqoq, Galilee (details) Uncovering ancient secrets: new evidence pushes back human arrival in South America (details) Unveiling a Viking aristocracy: remarkable discoveries in a southern Norwegian grave (details) Oldest genetic data from two-million-year-old African hominin revealed (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Huge Ice Age hand-axes found in England (details) (details) Innovative study finds early evidence of prehistoric plant technology (details) Surprisingly large, aligned, Mesolithic pits turn up in England (details) Dating of prehistoric teeth suggests Oregon site is among the oldest in North America (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pizza precursor seen in Pompeiian painting (details) Intensification of agriculture linked to early deaths in pre-colonial North America (details) Girl in early Anglo-Saxon Christian burial came from central Europe (details) Kenyan fossil suggests cannibalism among hominin ancestors (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Andean research shows drought cycles led to violence (details) Muscular modeling of “Lucy” fossil shows she could walk upright with ease (details) Models of European Neolithic show cycles of warfare causing population collapse (details) Bronze Age sword found in Bavaria (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists use crime forensics to prove Paleo-Americans hunted megafauna (details) Laotian cave suggests migrations toward Australia 10,000 years earlier than thought (details) Small brain size didn't prevent early hominins from complex ideas like burying the dead (details) New Bronze Age burial mounds discovered ten miles from Stonehenge (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Remnants of settlement belonging to little-known Dalma culture discovered in Iran (details) 12,000-year-old bird-bone flutes in Israel may have been used for hunting (details) Vessels that once contained ritual offerings discovered in ancient Maya city of Uxmal (details) New study finds deadly strain of malaria preserved in jarred organs of a scion of the famous Medicis (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Excavation reveals 3,000-year-old wheat flour in ancient Armenian bakery (details) New study finds biblical Judean elites had even more gastrointestinal assailants than previously known (details) (details) Australian rock art depicting distinctive boats reveals previously unknown link with Indonesian culture (details) Survey shows ancient craftsmen risked life and limb to craft stone tools (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Petroglyphs from Jordan and Saudi Arabia are world’s oldest scale blueprints (details) Pennsylvania dig explores first battle site in French and Indian War (details) Middle Pleistocene site in Spain reveals evidence for controlled cooking fires (details) Roman temple site in Brittany shows worship of both Celtic and Roman gods (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Megalith tomb in Spain uses rippled rock to reflect summer solstice light (details) Scoreboard for Maya ballgame found with late ninth-century hieroglyphics (details) Germany's oldest human footprints found in lakeshore silt (details) First large-scale survey of early Roman sites in Scotland shows intensive conquest efforts (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Mitochondrial DNA analysis suggests early Asian migrations to the Americas and Japan (details) 400-year-old-skeleton unearthed in Maryland believed to be discarded remains of teenaged indentured servant (details) Decline of the Indus Civilization megacities likely due to long periods of drought (details) Preserved 7,000-year-old road discovered beneath the Adriatic Sea (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Recently unearthed Romano-Egyptian Buddha was the product of an interlinked ancient world (details) (details) Underwater survey finds old military cemetery and hospital near Florida islands (details) (details) Artificial intelligence model learns to translate ancient Akkadian texts (details) Study of 150,000 year old Senegalese site gives evidence of cultural and climatic continuity (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wooden ritual mask from Osaka comes from the early agricultural period (details) Ancient cemetery below Paris holds burials from early Roman Gaul (details) New burial analysis shows Puerto Rico’s first inhabitants were more complex than previously thought (details) Spanish bone tool shows how Ice Age occupants made their clothing (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hoard of Roman coins from period of turbulent civil wars unearthed in Tuscany (details) DNA analysis reveals genetic diversity and dynastic politics of massive ancient central Asian empire (details) Medieval Norse settlers of Greenland confirmed to have imported timber from North America (details) Mystery of Blackbeard’s coal found not to be much of a mystery (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hair strands reveal Bronze Age psychedelic drug use (details) (details) Ornate Christian frescoes emerge at site of medieval African capital (details) (details) Ancient humans ambushed giant wild cows in the Levant (details) Climate changes may have driven Maya decline (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: More finds at major site in Miami, Florida, pit preservation against development (details) Roman jewelry in Judea burial includes protective symbol of moon goddess (details) Severed hands in Egyptian palace pits may have been war trophies (details) South African cave produces evidence that early occupants ate giant snails (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Canada’s oldest English coin discovered in Newfoundland (details) New research suggests deep connections among Transeurasian languages and peoples (details) New room discovered at Pompeii may have been the housing for slave family (details) Ornate wooden bird once belonged to English queen Anne Boleyn (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Analysis of Swahili genetics shows cosmopolitan history, supports oral tradition (details) (details) (details) (details) Archaeologists in Israel unearth 6000-year-old fishhook probably used to catch sharks (details) (details) Horses were an integral part of Indigenous American cultures within decades of their landing in North America, new study shows (details) (details) Roman quarry and dump in Brittany yields artifacts from fifteen centuries of use (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 7,000-year-old cemetery reveals oldest evidence of cattle bloodletting (details) Archaeologists discover rare Zodiac reliefs in Egyptian Temple of Esna (details) Genomic analyses of hair from Ludwig van Beethoven reveals clues about his death (details) (details) (details) (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Discovery suggests Iberians crafted steel tools a millennium before the Romans (details) Excavations reveal Cypriot village as site of significant Mediterranean Bronze Age trading hub (details) New analysis of the Colchester Vase provides insight into gladiatorial games in Roman Britain (details) Laser and chemical analysis of Wari pottery shows local creative diversity in ancient Peru (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early ice skates from western China may show Bronze Age ties with Europe (details) Kurgan remains suggest they were riding horses by 3,000 BC, much earlier than thought (details) Lake sediment study shows how Preclassic Maya city polluted the nearby lake (details) Runic inscription on Danish find is oldest known mention of Norse god Odin (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Chinese city had planned layout, extensive defenses (details) Mesoamerican study shows good governance was key to longer-lasting cities (details)(details) DNA study suggests early Europeans waited out the Ice Age in Iberia (details)(details) Genetic analysis discovers TB resistance in pre-contact Americans (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists unearth live Civil War artillery round at Gettysburg battlefield (details) Ancient musical instrument in southern Vietnam (details) (details) Residue of medicinal herb mixtures in a 500-year-old cattle-horn container from South Africa (details) Evidence of Bronze Age cranial surgery in northern Israel (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 2.9 million-year-old African site raises questions over who really made some of the earliest stone tools (details) (details) (details) Ancient burial mounds in Mexico among region's most important finds in decades (details) Sprawling early Medieval stronghold discovered beneath Spanish forest (details) Lavish foods and spices survive five centuries submerged in royal shipwreck (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Turkish tree ring record suggests drought caused collapse of the Hittite Empire (details) New study identifies two narrow windows when coastal Beringia was passable (details) Bone spear fragments found in Washington may be oldest weapon in the Americas (details) (details) (details) French burial shows gold wires used to hold aristocrat’s teeth in place (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rosetta Stone for ancient Amorite: Iraqi tablets unlock lost language that is ancestral to modern Hebrew (details)(details) Large pits in Great Zimbabwe may have been water conservation system (details)(details) Neanderthal groups were big enough to hunt, kill and eat entire elephants (details) Underground aqueduct served the coastal retreats of Rome’s elites (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study provides insight into the advent of currency in the ancient Levant (details) Early Mesolithic human remains found in British cave system (details) (details) Huge moat that once protected Jerusalem unearthed (details) Tombs of wealthy elite in southwest Mexico indicate region was once a key city for ancient Zapotec culture (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age well in Bavaria holds 3,000-year-old offerings (details) Couple finds one plantation-era grave, then 143 more (details)(details) Romanian roadwork unearths tomb with artifacts from time of the Huns (details) Studies of European skeletons suggest Neolithic farming life was more brutal than bucolic (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Remains found in colonial Charleston cemetery reveal the origins of enslaved Africans (details) Survey of European “bog bodies” points to long history, violent deaths (details) New reconstruction of ancient decorated skull unveiled (details) Analysis of Medieval skull recreates brutal murder (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Viking age meeting hall discovered in northern Jutland (details) DNA study reveals Jamestown colonists lived with, and sometimes ate, ancient indigenous dogs (details) New kurgan tomb in south Siberia may be from previously unknown Scythian-like group (details) Pleistocene-era discoveries in Brazil probably created by tool-using monkeys (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New projectile points from Idaho date 3,000 years before Clovis points (details) Humans have used bear skins for blankets for at least 300,000 years (details) Sacred Aboriginal cave art destroyed in Australia (details) Wreck of the Erebus yields artifacts documenting the lost Arctic exploration ship (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: LiDAR survey work reveals interconnected and complex Maya “kingdom” (details)(details) Greek study indicates modern humans were not the first sailors (details)(details) Cultural transmission responsible for the spread of prehistoric pottery (details) 2,000-year-old Jewish burial cave turned Christian pilgrimage site excavated in Israel (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study suggests that droughts urged Hunnic peoples to raid the Roman Empire (details) New research indicates the ancient Mexica utilized mountain basin as solar observatory (details) Extremely rare Jewish coin from the First Jewish-Roman War unearthed in Jerusalem (details) Researchers locate 168 previously unknown Nazca geoglyphs in Peruvian desert (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Narrative scenes of men facing animals found in Turkey may be the oldest known in the world (details) Colosseum’s sewers contain ancient arena snacks (details) Early medieval burial site reveals rare evidence of a powerful female Christian religious leader from 7th century Britain (details) Oldest evidence of Maya calendar discovered in Guatemala (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA studies show how history shaped genetics of European Jewish populations (details) New stucco masks displayed from Classic Maya city of Toniná (details) New analysis shows human ancestors cooked with multiple ingredients and flavors (details) (details) Winter solstice alignment found in Middle Kingdom tomb in Egypt (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Skeletal remains of a spider monkey provide new evidence about the ties between two ancient Mesoamerican societies (details)(details) Archaeologists use low tides in the English Channel to search for evidence of Neanderthal hunting grounds (details) New analysis of the mummified body of Ötzi the Iceman questions the prevailing story of his death in the Alps over 5,000 years ago (details) Centuries old shipwreck discovered during mapping of Norway’s largest lake (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hundreds of New Kingdom mummies and pyramid of a formerly unknown queen found in ancient necropolis (details) Ancient carp teeth contain the oldest signs of human cooking (details)(details) Remains from Revolutionary War battlefield to be studied and reburied (details) Dating of New Mexico footprints contested in new study (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Tuscan finds challenge previous ideas about the Roman-Etruscan relationship (details) Researchers seeking Cleopatra’s tomb find tunnel under ancient temple (details) Parrot bone from eastern New Mexico raises questions about prehistoric Southwestern bird trade (details) Ivory comb discovered in Israel bears earliest sentence in alphabetic script (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New DNA analysis traces path to earliest people in South America (details) Scottish gravestone features rare medieval inscription (details)(details) Archaeologists uncover commercial district of Byzantine-era city Ephesus (details) Scientists discover ancient peoples found watermelon seeds to be tastier than the fruit’s meat (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly-uncovered Romano-British villa features partially intact heating system (details) Archaeologists uncover Assyrian carvings spared from destruction by ISIS in Mosul (details)(details) Extreme drought lowers Mississippi River level and reveals spooky finds (details) Oldest DNA in Great Britain shows two distinct Paleolithic populations (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 1,600 year old Roman mosaic depicting the Roman god Neptune, the Labors of Hercules, and the Trojan War discovered in Syria (details) Research suggests that Late Viking Age groups intentionally replicated ancient Roman era grave designs and traditions (details) New study provides a rare glimpse into the close knit family structure of a Neanderthal community (details)(details) New excavation provides insightful clues surrounding seasonal use of Neolithic timber henge (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Peruvian workers laying pipeline inadvertently uncover centuries old Peruvian tombs (details) (details) Remains in Taiwan cave support local lore of vanished ancient mountain-dwelling peoples (details) DNA found in Armenian cave allows researchers to learn more about human plant use during the Paleolithic. (details) Drone footage captures footprint of ancient Mesopotamian city (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Dig in Philippi, Greece, uncovers giant statue of Hercules (details) Biblical-era copper smelting in the Negev led to desertification (details) Viking Age beads reveal careful use of recycled glass from Roman mosaics (details) Dig on Alabama coast reveals 1400-year-old canal (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Crimson color paint in Maya cities exposed them to toxic mercury (details) Ancient plant DNA shows how people in ancient British Isles built and used artificial islands (details) New sarcophagus from Saqqara held high-ranking statesman who served Ramses II (details) Baltic warship wreck reveals impressive artillery and structural design (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Gold funeral mask may indicate unknown trade connections in ancient China (details) New genetic study provides community level insight into Anglo-Saxon migration (details) 3,000 year old canoe discovered beneath waters of Lake Mendota in Wisconsin (details) Ancient structure found near Prague may provide clues to history of Neolithic people in Central Europe (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Dung samples found in Syria suggest earlier timeline for animal tending (details) Examination of 14th century map offers evidence of the actual existence of islands from Welsh legend (details) “Exceptional” Byzantine mosaic uncovered by farmer in Gaza (details) Viking Textiles Show Viking Women Had Tremendous Power (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pleistocene cave burial in Borneo reveals world's earliest successful amputation (details) Rising sea levels threaten Turtle Mound on Florida coast (details) Bodies from English well are from medieval massacre of Jews (details) Norwegian island cave has been a gathering spot for 10,000 years (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Lost branch of the Nile may solve the puzzle of how stones were brought to the Pyramids (details) Archaeologists ask UNESCO to protect the Hagia Sophia after years of damage (details) New dig in Zanzibar’s Stone Town finds evidence of early Swahili occupation (details) Tree-ring studies may show an Argentinian shipwreck is long-lost whaler from Rhode Island (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rare 1000-year-old canoe burial found in Patagonia (details) Mounds on the Louisiana State University campus are oldest built structures in North America (details) Femur study might reveal the first known hominin (details) Groundbreaking genetic study provides numerous insights into the history of the Southern Arc (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: A new chromosomal study recalibrates the timeline for human arrival in South America (details)(details) Largest collection of rock crystals in Britain discovered at Neolithic burial site (details) Reburial efforts for the skeletal remains of Black Philadelphians, long held at Penn Museum, may soon come to a resolution (details) Study suggests Medieval monks’ savvy agricultural techniques left them stricken with intestinal worms (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Maya cremation remains used to create balls for ritual games (details) Researchers discover world’s oldest example of octopus lures on Mariana Islands (details) Butchered remains of mammoths point to possibility of oldest humans in North America (details) Archaeologists may have cracked the code of ancient Elamite script (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: January 30, 2022: Thousands of buried sites in UK threatened as climate change dries the soil (details) May 22, 2022: Climate change threatens century-old Endurance shipwreck (details) June 5, 2022: Low reservoir levels offer new chance to study Bronze Age city in Iraq (details) (details) July 24, 2022: Researchers point to climate change and sociopolitical conflict as contributing factors to the fall of powerful Maya city (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Taiwan dig finds oldest shell processing site in the Pacific (details) New research shows fish were common food for Ancestral Puebloans (details) Palace in eastern Turkey could have housed Genghis Khan’s grandson (details) Horse tooth DNA may link to famed herd on Chincoteague (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 19th-century cobalt mine discovered in perfect condition by cavers in England (details) Researchers point to climate change and sociopolitical conflict as contributing factors to the fall of powerful Maya city (details) New study underscores the role of “sea gardens” in sustaining indigenous communities for thousands of years (details) Mysterious haul of Viking Age jewelry delivered to Norwegian museum (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wood found on Oregon coast likely comes from missing Spanish galleon (details) Late Pleistocene remains from southern China reveal possible relative of Native Americans (details) Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery near London reveals life after the end of Roman rule (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Aztec children’s bones show hardship, resilience during early Spanish rule (details) Mosaic floor in Galilee is oldest depiction of Bible heroines (details) Researchers surprised to find Stone-Age jewelry crafted from human bones (details) Ornate wooden sculpture found in Peru (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New analysis pushes age of ancient hominin remains from caves in South Africa back more than a million years. (details) New study provides insight into how ancient Maya attempted to ritualistically battle gods of the underworld in sacred cave. (details) Historic tomahawk belonging to Chief Standing Bear repatriated to Ponca Tribe (details) New research of 7,000 year old graveyard sheds light on nuances of sex and gender roles in Neolithic Europe. (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Research on prehistoric tools gives new insight into early inhabitants of Britain (details) Archaeologists hope new discoveries in Iranian hill village will secure UNESCO recognition. (details) Archaeologists and firefighters adapt to protect ancient sites from fire (details) 1,200 year old mosque in Israel considered one of the oldest known in the world (details)(details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Drought on the Arabian peninsula possibly contributed to the rise of Islam (details) New research supports evidence that communities in the Americas independently developed democratic systems (details) Israeli archaeologists find earliest evidence of fruit tree cultivation (details) Analysis of 14th-century remains in Kyrgyzstan suggests Black Death plague may have originated in Central Asia (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New research into chickens shows origin in Thailand, slow spread from there (details) Oslo excavations find hundreds of unique medieval artifacts (details) Shipwreck found off England’s east coast nearly killed the future James the Second (details) Maya pits yield earliest evidence of classic corn-processing technique (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Low reservoir levels offer new chance to study Bronze Age city in Iraq (details)(details) Israeli dig finds first Roman military amphitheater in southern Levant (details) Spanish cave reveals long record of paintings from Neanderthals and later humans (details) Harvard collections include remains of Native Americans and possible enslaved people (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Abandoned Hellenistic farmstead unearthed in Israel (details)(details) Maya gemstone tooth fillings may have had hygienic benefits (details) Study of ancient proteins confirms early Australians ate the eggs of huge flightless birds (details) Complex city ruins in the Amazon found using digital air-mapping technology (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Climate change threatens century-old Endurance shipwreck (details) Components of ancient Chinese incense demonstrate the breadth of ancient trade networks (details) Molar discovered in Laos determined to be Denisovan (details) Ancient amphorae discovered by Ukrainian soldiers (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Uruguay DNA study offers new insights into Indigenous origins and continuity (details) Bird bone study shows medieval Estonians ate chicken, liked cockfights and used hawks for hunting (details) Sardinian Bronze Age burial site reveals two more giant statues (details) Turkish looters expose underground worship site from Neo-Assyrian Empire (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Lone woman buried with elite men raises questions about gender roles in Neolithic Europe (details) 3D modeling technique reveals full extent of large Indigenous cave painting in Alabama (details) Stonehenge area offered ample resource base long before monument was built (details) Indigenous Americans and Australians raised oysters sustainably for centuries (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New analysis on materials excavated 70 years ago reveals details about medieval Norwegian town (details) Neanderthals in Lower Saxony region exhibited adaptability to a changing climate (details) New research of Anglo-Saxon diets suggests that royals and peasants ate similarly and even intermixed at special meals (details) Several Nevada tribes allege desecration of sacred land and appeal to archaeological firm to stop digging at site of planned lithium mine (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study identifies at least 20 royal burial sites from King Arthur era (details) Game dice found in Indian town believed to be 1,000 years old (details) Statistical analysis of site mixing challenges claims for pre-Clovis peopling of the Americas (details) Chinese text may be oldest description of aurora borealis (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient tsunami left Chilean coast sparsely inhabited for centuries (details) Massive stone jars found in India may have been used to store the dead (details) Guatemalan mural shows earliest example of Maya calendar (details) Researchers propose new starting date for famous ancient Greek computer (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient jars reveal that Judean elite enjoyed vanilla flavored wine 2,600 years ago (details) New study finds the Avars likely made a record-breaking migration from Mongolia (details) Genetic research links increases in height, intelligence and proneness to heart disease to Neolithic societal shifts (details) Human remains from a Puebla church provide insight into the 19th century French invasion of Mexico (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Sardinian lead found at the site of an ancient Cypriot shipwreck points to sophisticated regional trade networks (details) New study of Châtelperronian tools give greater insights into the rise and fall of early Neandertal communities (details) Analysis of skeletal remains in Scotland find that some early people traveled great distances in the region (details) Excavated funerary bundle contains remains of surgeon from the Sican Culture in Peru (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists reportedly find oldest Hebrew text on ancient curse tablet (details) Norse settlers in Greenland contended with water shortages (details) Study finds ice-free land route was not available to early human arrivals to the Americas (details) New study documents burial practices in Neolithic Turkey, including the use of pigments (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists discover remains of institute intended to attract great Chinese intellectuals during the Warring States period (details) New study shows Native American burning practices helped manage the forests of the Klamath Mountains (details) Evidence of silver extraction and abandoned mausoleum in the English countryside puzzle archaeologists (details) Ritual deposit of starfish found in Aztec temple in Mexico City (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Israeli study finds that prehistoric people may have reused discarded tools in memory of ancestors (details) New evidence points to the importance of linen and oil in ancient Levant societies (details) Symbol stone found in farmer’s field believed to date back to the time of the emergence of early Scotland (details) 1,300-Year-Old Zapotec glyph in Mexico decoded (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First Nations residential school in Alberta reveals 169 potential gravesites (details) New research suggests how Stonehenge tracked the solar year (details) Peruvian burials suggest sacrifice of children as part of death rituals (details) Geologic study traces origins of the Willendorf Venus stone carving (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study further confirms stellar origin for Tutankhamun’s mysterious dagger (details) Marks on 5000-year-old Spanish skull show world’s oldest ear operation (details) Large mosaics in London came from upscale Roman roadhouse (details) Earliest-known trousers show cultural exchange in ancient Asia (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly unearthed Buddhist temple may be Pakistan’s oldest (details) First application of new forensic method to ancient remains reveals man’s death by drowning (details) Excavators recover medieval Papal seal on Swedish island (details) New evidence of conquistadors found in the American Southwest (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Excavations at the tomb of China’s first emperor reveal 20 more terracotta warriors. (details) New study pushes back the arrival of modern humans in Europe. (details) Large cache of pottery notepads sheds light on daily life in ancient Egypt. (details) Study suggest indigenous Peruvian leaders used hallucinogens to build social ties and win loyalty. (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pottery from an island near northeastern Australia shows widespread trade three thousand years earlier than thought (details) Meteorite remnants at Hopewell sites show massive comet burst immediately above North America (details) (details) Peruvian tombs with rearranged bones may be response to desecration by conquistadors (details) (details) Computer simulation shows cave-dwelling humans knew where to locate their fire (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Israeli site shows people ate well during the last Ice Age (details) New study casts doubt on claims that meat eating led to evolution of bigger brains (details) Geophysical research at Poverty Point reveals new complexity (details) (details) Thousands of buried sites in UK threatened as climate change dries the soil (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 3,000 year old tombs of wealthy ancient Chinese clan contain remains of ritually sacrificed warriors (details) Funerary highways show early social and economic connections between ancient Arabian oases settlements (details) Pottery fragments from prehistoric Nok culture shed light on history of West African cuisine (details) New genome study reveals the earliest known bioengineered hybrid animal (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Study of volcanic ash provides new date for one of world’s earliest Homo sapiens skulls (details) Rare leather scale armor found in ancient Chinese tomb (details) Study indicates that Medieval warhorses were unexpectedly small in stature (details) Study of rare African script offers insight to early evolution of writing (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Carving of royal falconer found in Oslo excavations (details) New dating shows so-called “Viking” horned helmets are actually from the Bronze Age (details) Palace toilet from Iron Age Jerusalem shows even elites had worms (details) List of Maya food plants suggests resilience to drought was higher than believed (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient human DNA extracted from lice glue exhibits prehistoric migration patterns of Argentina’s early Ansilta culture (details) Jin Dynasty tomb from northern China holds murals depicting good luck symbols (details) 3D CT scan allows for virtual unwrapping of the mummy of Amenhotep the First (details) New finds from Iran’s Burnt City site suggest farflung Bronze Age trade (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 200,000-year-old remains of mammoths unearthed in UK alongside Ice Age-era stone tools (details) Tribal insight provides invaluable cultural context after archaeologists discover 12,300-year-old tobacco seeds in Utah desert (details) (details) Cluster of newly discovered Norse longhouses revealed near Viking ship burial in Norway (details) Remains of last known U.S. slave-trade ship found to be mostly intact in Alabama river delta (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study disputes prevalence of infanticide among ancient Spartans and Greeks (details) Archaeologists discover the remains of the Americas’ oldest domesticated dog in British Columbia (details) Early Mesolithic remains of baby girl found buried with shell jewelry in Italian cave (details) (details) New research illustrates that cultural divergences in prehistoric Britain existed long before Roman influence (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cahokia Mounds gets new augmented reality app amid push for National Park status (details) New work dates massive megalith site in Ethiopia to first century AD (details) Remains of crucified man found in Roman cemetery in England (details) Genes from now-extinct Denisovans help modern Tibetans survive at high altitude (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Large Roman mosaic found on English farm (details) Cyprus tomb artifacts point to elite family with expansive trade connections (details) New study of Tanzania footprints suggests hominins made them, not bears (details) New research shows quinoa was critical food for people around Lake Titicaca (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Researchers take a fresh look at Maya salt factory in Belize (details) Petroglyphs discovered at Canada’s Wanuskewin Heritage Park (details) Discovery of ruined fortress unveiled as a Hannukah gift in Israel (details) New study focuses on cultural and economic disruptions from the Justinianic Plague (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study demonstrates humans accelerated the extinction of wooly mammoths (details) LiDAR reveals the sophisticated agriculture of three Classic period Maya kingdoms (details) Evidence of ancient mercury poisoning discovered from analysis of Iberian bones (details) Study finds volcanic eruptions contributed to the demise of ancient Chinese dynasties (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First discovered skull of Homo naledi child reconstructed (details) Elaborate villas still visible at submerged Roman resort town (details) First complete Maya canoe found in Yucatan (details) Boston construction plans may disturb island where hundreds of Native Americans died (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA analysis used to determine ancestry of mummified remains found in Xinjiang (details) Artifacts from lost empire of Srivijaya being plundered in Sumatra (details) Impacts of deforestation by resident population revealed at Chaco Canyon (details) Study seeks to clarify scientific naming standards for early human ancestors (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Study of horse DNA provides new evidence about the spread of the Indo-European languages (details) Ancient Caucasians may have shunned gold for cultural reasons (details) Cosmic radiation allows researchers to date Viking artifacts in Newfoundland (details) Evidence from Madagascar shows that foragers make lasting changes to environments they inhabit. (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Analysis of teeth shows early Native Americans did not come from Japan (details) Medieval document suggests Italians heard about America 150 years before Columbus (details) Lake sediments challenge history of human habitation in the Azores (details) Earliest hominin footprints from Crete now dated to 6 million years ago (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 3D technology reveals new example of Easter Island’s lost script (details) Genetics of Siberian dogs show widespread trade by early Arctic peoples (details) Spirit mirror of Queen Elizabeth’s astrologer was Aztec artifact (details) Remains of first Black church in Colonial Williamsburg are uncovered -- again (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Historians document human impacts to the environment on islands of Micronesia (details) New discoveries at Tikal demonstrate complex societal interactions (details) Genetic testing suggests Etruscans were locals from eastern Europe (details) Yale’s Vinland Map found to be a forgery (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Impacts from meteor may be source of biblical tale of destruction of Sodom (details) Analysis of fossilized footprints suggests humans came to North America long before end of Ice Age (details) New research traces Maya societal recovery from habitat destruction following volcanic blast (details) Scholars express concern for fate of Afghanistan’s historical sites under new regime (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age coffin unearthed on UK golf course yields new secrets during conservation (details) (details) Handprints and footprints preserved in Tibetan mud may be oldest known art (details) (details) Bone tools from Moroccan cave show how Pleistocene people made clothing (details) Texas academics catalog African American graves at risk in American South (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Acropolis renovations draw criticism for covering centuries of history (details) Further evidence of human sacrifice in construction of Korea’s Moon Castle (details) Unique artifacts uncovered in China highlight the creativity of ancient peoples (details) New research explores interactions of ancient Pueblo with turkeys (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Analysis of bone tools from Italy resets timeline of Neanderthal development (details) First DNA evidence of ancient Toalean people recovered in Indonesia (details) Louisiana earthworks created by rare group efforts from hunter-gatherers (details) Artifacts reveal the softer side of Viking culture (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Michigan farm field produces first Clovis site in the state (details) Remains of early farmers in arid desert of Chile show a history of violence (details) Mexican pictographs are first record of pre-Conquest earthquakes (details) Herculaneum bone studies shows men and women ate different diets (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Medieval French abbey reveals historical structure with over 1,000 burials (details) Obsidian blade from Texas suggests a link to Coronado’s expedition (details)(details) Genetic evidence shows that French Mesolithic hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding (details)(details) Temple excavation indicates Philistine ritual use of plants (details)