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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Purdue Research Foundation and Archaeological Legacy Institute to embark on expedition to identify Amelia Earhart’s missing plane (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: A lost wall may reveal the location of ancient Paris (details) A piece of the world’s oldest peace treaty emerges in Turkey (details) wo ancient burials may explain Göbeklitepe’s scattered human bones (details) (details) Giant stone circles raise new questions in Argentina’s Andes (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient wall points to early defensive engineering in Morocco (details) (details) Dozens of ancient Mexican rock paintings trace a journey to the underworld (details) Pre-colonization, Indigenous Australian population may have been as high as 2.2 million (details) Researchers try lead-based method that could unlock the Herculaneum scrolls (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First discovery of an arm bone in China from the mysterious Denisovans (details) (details) 25,000-year-old betel nut traces indicate oldest habitual use of drugs (details) (details) Researchers discover elite pre-Colombian Peruvian funeral platform (details) Irish cave art indicates migrants from Wales arrived much earlier than expected (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Carbon dating confirms Indigenous Mexican manuscript predates Spanish conquest (details) (details) DNA suggests crops and livestock reached northwestern China without mass migration (details) (details) Homeowner discovers Denmark’s largest Viking silver treasure (details) Aboriginal artists used giant Rainbow Serpents to reinforce traditions during colonization (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hidden Inka roads reveal new side of Machu Picchu (details) (details) 6,500-year-old ritual center tracked solar and lunar events (details) 11,000-year-old statue shows human mastering a leopard (details) Ancient DNA confirms cacao reached Mississippian people (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bone analysis indicates that Ireland’s “Kerry Cow” was actually a bear (details) First evidence of Neanderthal presence in Arabian desert (details) (details) 4,000-year-old Austronesian painting recalls one of history’s greatest migrations (details) Mysterious grave good reveals pre-Inca metal processing networks (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly discovered papal letter indicates support for Norman Conquest (details) Translation of Linear A links Minoan and Greek gods (details) (details) Pre-Hispanic Colombians collaboratively built water management systems (details) (details) Newly excavated Anatolian Church may be the site for the First Council of Nicaea (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New excavations reveal how Moche potters lived and worked at Cerro Mayal (details) Sugar may have fueled human brain evolution, not just meat (details) Ancient DNA suggests Ice Age people hunted more female mammoths than males (details) Scattered bones may point to violence at a Roman villa in Britain (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Amazon civilization reshapes understanding of rainforest history (details) (details) Byzantine shipwreck yields remarkable gold treasure (details) Ghost DNA study uncovers unknown human ancestors (details) (details) Newly identified Assyrian kings reshape ancient royal history (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Flight missing for 74 years is finally located near Puerto Rico (details) Modern archaeological tools revise manner of death for sacrificed Inca children (details) (details) Basque Country cave paintings were designed with syntactic structure (details) (details) Ash study reveals 25,000 years of continuous use of cave for rituals by Aboriginal group (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Polynesian seafarers resumed migration because of major drought (details) (details) New study of mummies finds ancient Egyptian princesses wielded weapons (details) (details) Precolonial Brazilian communities used variety of subsistence strategies, including reliance on maize (details) (details) New study reexamines importance of Roman female farm managers (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cave site in Turkey reveals cultural similarities between Neanderthals and early modern humans (details) 100,000-year-old facial wound may be earliest known incident of sharp-force violence (details) (details) Lost Pima Himeri village located alongside 17th-century Jesuit mission (details) New computational study estimates the majority of medieval chivalric literature has been lost (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Herculaneum scrolls reveal hidden Greek text (details) Ancient boat carvings suggest Atlantic links across Bronze Age Europe (details) (details) Ireland Bronze Age settlement may be among Europe’s earliest towns (details) (details) Early Americans specialized in hunting giant animals (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Possible all-female prehistoric burial deep in a South African cave system (details) (details) New study shows Neanderthals were genetically diverse prior to extinction (details) (details) First identification of ancient human DNA on cave walls (details) (details) Researchers find incredible Maya city with pyramid and stelae (details)