• Audio News for May 30th through June 5th, 2021


    News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:Scotland’s Galloway Hoard unveils new mysteries of the Viking Age(details)National Guard mobilized to protect Teotihuacan from illegal building(details)Piecing together countless fragments of the past, then and now(details)Roman graves in England held decapitated victims of harsh legal code(details)
  • Beeswax Discovered in 400-Year-Old Wooden Box in Norway

    OSLO, NORWAY—Gizmodo reports that researchers from the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo identified the remnants of beeswax candles inside a well-preserved wooden box that was discovered in 2019 in melting glacial ice along the Lendbreen mountain pass in Norway’s Breheimen National Park. The lid of the box was held shut with leather straps. The pine used to make the box has been radiocarbon dated to between A.D. 1475 and 1635. Farmers used such boxes to transport candles, which were

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