News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Tool re-use by early humans; linen and oil in ancient Levant; new Pictish symbol stone in Scotland; Monte Albán frieze decoded.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Gravesites at Canadian school for indigenous children; Stonehenge as a calendar; child sacrifice in ancient Peru; and geologic source for Willendorf Venus.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Meteoric iron in King Tut’s dagger; surgery performed on 5000-year-old skull from Spain; large Roman mosaic in London; and study of 3000-year-old trousers from far western China.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early Buddhist temple in Pakistan; new method shows drowning in ancient death; medieval Papal seal on Gotland; and new traces of Coronado in Arizona.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: More terracotta warriors; earlier arrival of modern humans in western Europe; huge cache of inscribed sherds in Egypt; and hallucinogens as source of power in ancient Peru.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Long-distance trade by Indigenous Australians; cosmic catastrophe for the Ohio Valley Hopewell; threaded vertebrae reflect Conquistador atrocity;

and early cave dwellers knew where to place their hearth.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Israeli Late Glacial site shows abundance; new questions about early Home meat eating; ground-penetrating radar results from Poverty Point; and UK peatlands drying out.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Chinese royal tomb with sacrificed warriors; Bronze Age highways in Saudia Arabia; pottery residues show very ancient West African cuisine;

and hybrid horse-like animal in Mesopotamia.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New date for early African skull; leather scale armor in western China; Medieval warhorses were small; and African script shows stages of development.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Royal falconer statuette in Norway; horned helmets in Denmark are Bronze-Age; parasites from royal toilet in Jerusalem; and drought-resistant Maya food plants.