The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Developers destroy Peruvian pyramid; flowers line 12,000 year old grave; copper toe rings on Egyptian skeletons; and stone head of Roman god in northern England.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Traces of ancient famine in Jerusalem; untouched imperial tomb in Peru; Egyptian archaeologist takes risks to expose looting; and traces of early history in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: New Maya city in Mexican lowlands, gold female figuring in Denmark, new theory on Appalachian rock art, Chinese tomb with preserved murals

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Many species in Aztec sacrifices; fabled lost city in Cambodia; ancient princess burial in Kazakhstan; and cancer in Neanderthal rib.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Letter from Robert the Bruce; jasper stone suggests first European-Native American contact; first wine-making in France; and decapitated ball player statue in Mexico.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: South African shaman rain-making site; Italian team to excavate Cahokia; Egyptians and meteorite iron; and Civil War prison camp in Georgia.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Copper coins suggest early contact with Australia; Roman city threatened in Egypt; remarkable new rock art discovery in Mexico; and Bahrain excavations focus on ancient civilizations.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Maya pyramid in Belize bulldozed; huge Byzantine mosaic in Israel; early Maori burials examined in New Zealand; summertime conception in ancient Egypt.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Newly discovered lines on the ground in Peru; the hanging garden may have been in Nineveh; new technology maps underwater town in Britain; and late Roman Period burials in Germany have plague DNA.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Yellow clay balls at Teotihuacan; megalithic tombs in the UAR; Jamestown cannibalism; lost Swedish rune stone reappears.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Mexican rock art shows a priest figure; wealthy British woman buried 4400 years ago; Romanian Romeo and Juliet burial; town for Egyptian pyramid builders reveals details of lives and society.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: French burials shed light on Celtic civilization; aboriginal artwork dates back tens of thousands of years; retaining wall points to pre-Columbian Gulf Coast port; and 800-year-old recipes to be taste-tasted.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Dating methods combine to tie Maya dates to European calendar; giant stone cairn found submerged below Sea of Galilee; new analysis shows pottery started with Ice Age hunter-gatherers cooking fish; and Easter Island statue reveals more through digital imaging.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Jewish life in Middle Ages revealed in Cologne excavation; 2000-year-old battering ram undergoes new analysis; 17th Dynasty royal cemetery found in Luxor; and Revolutionary War POW camp reveals little-known aspect of American history.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Afghanistan’s financial straits both threaten, and protect, huge Buddhist site; new work at ancient Ur is first foreign excavation since the '30s; network analysis shows prehistoric Southwest had its own kind of social networking; and Greco-Roman site in Turkey held famous, and deadly, ancient shrine.