News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Buddha in Egypt; submerged cemetery in Florida; AI model to translate cuneiform; and 150,000-year-old Senegalese site.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wooden mask from Osaka; ancient Parisian cemetery; early Puerto Rico burials; and Spanish Pleistocene bone tool and early clothing.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman Civil War Coins Found in Tuscany; DNA analysis reveals genetic diversity and dynastic politics of ancient empire; Medieval Norse Greenland settlers imported North American timber; and Blackbeard’s Coal Mystery -- not so much.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age psychedelics use; Christian frescoes found at medieval African site; ancient Levant humans ambushed wild cows; and climatic deterioration may have driven decline.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New Miami finds set preservation against development; Roman moon goddess jewelry in Judea burial; Severed hands found in Egyptian palace pits; and South African cave suggests ancients there ate giant land snails.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Swahili genetics; 6000-year-old fishhook in Israel; early horses in Indigenous America; and Roman artifacts in Brittany trash dump.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient bloodletting tools in Sudan; Zodiac reliefs in Egyptian temple; genomic analysis of Beethoven hair; and serpent sculpture at Chichén Itzá.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early steel in Iberia; Cypriot village as Bronze Age trading hub; Colchester Vase; and Wari pottery.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age ice skates in western China; evidence of horse-riding 5000 years ago; lake pollution by early Maya city; and Norse god Odin in early runic inscription.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Chinese city of Bicun; longevity of Mesoamerican cities; Iberia as Ice-Age refugium; and evidence of prehistoric TB in Ecuador.