The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Terracotta warriors excavation grows to include vast palace; geological evidence shows role of drought in Sumeria’s ancient; new research deep in Maya caves shows early religious use; and secrets of Egypt’s largest sarcophagus decoded.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Massive city gate highlights Bronze Age dig in Jordan; thieves steal rock art from Sierra Nevada sacred site; mesolithic house foundations are Britain’s first;and new chemical analysis shows how New World silver traveled to Europe.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Maya infant burials reveal poor health and malnutrition; 3000 year old Pakistani graves point to complex burial rituals; near-perfect Civil War site unearthed in Virginia; and modern war rages around ancient biblical battle site.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Early Neolithic hoard shows life in Central Europe, 8000 years ago; new dating technique puts precise range on Polynesian coral files; Norway finds medieval copper smelter, and a mystery; and precise precipitation record links climate change and Maya collapse.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Archaeologists party in 1400-year-old Anglo-Saxon feasting hall; mysterious princess’s tomb found near Cairo; cave home of the Island of Blue Dolphins’ woman may have been located; and oldest prehistoric european town excavated in Bulgaria.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Large early Hindu temple remains found in Bali; crowdsourcing is newest tool in race to decipher old language; new tomb marks earliest years of Maya culture; and neolithic figurine from northern Spain is ancient male idol.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Building blocks for Angkor Wat floated to site via canals; ancient Troy to be re-excavated; wandering cat reveals ancient Roman CAT-acomb; and Vikings and Native Americans may have interacted on Baffin Island.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Spanish team finds concrete evidence of the spot where Caesar died; deep excavations trace Thai culture’s long development; British Columbia site yields thousands of artifacts showing long prehistory of the area; and 3D laser scan of Stonehenge reveals new details of construction.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Were there dentists in the Stone Age?; burial place of great Maya queen revealed by alabaster jar; bronze Age jeweler turns out to be a woman; and luxurious Minoan building found in Crete.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: German site offers unique insights on Aurignacian culture; battlefield found from Oregon’s Indian wars; Spanish Bronze Age fortress shows eastern Mediterranean influence; and Bronze Age trade shown by chemical analysis of stinging nettle cloth.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Italian tunnels lead to Etruscan pyramidal chambers; 1000-year-old village found in Philippines; did a comet cause an ice age 12,900 years ago?; and poolside mosaic from Roman times uncovered in Turkey.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: German military site was one of Caesar's; new Mayan mural turns up during home remodeling; new skeletal study confirms Hopewell were egalitarian and gender-equal; and a mummy case is saved by engineering and a little bit of LEGO.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: ancient Peruvian tomb may have been designed to flood; 500-year-old Alaskan settlement disappearing into Bering Sea; King Richard III long-lost burial church uncovered; and wonderfully preserved Roman shipwreck excavated on French Riviera.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Roman “bad spell” table found in England; school for African-American children located in Colonial Williamsburg; Scottish site reveals Iron Age and Viking settlements; and Greek poem honoring Nero’s wife deciphered.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Danish bog holds hundreds of warriors killed 2,000 years ago; giant freeze-dryer will conserve colonial ship; Zapotec burial tomb shows local differences in play; and Greenland shipwreck is vessel that carried doomed South Pole explorer.