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Old News, Issue 3
Bonus Episode15th September 2018 • The Dirt Podcast • The Dirt Podcast
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Our roundup of the newest oldest stuff this month includes a frozen baby horse, a Maya funeral mask, intrepid robots, Neanderthal sailors (maybe?) and Anna's worst fake accent yet! 

First up, check out Patron Saint of The Dirt Dr. Kristina Killgrove's Google map plotting her coverage of archaeological topics the world over!

Stories covered in this issue:

'Spectacular' ancient public library discovered in Germany (The Guardian)

'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving (National Geographic)

Drought In Central Europe Reveals Cautionary 'Hunger Stones' In Czech River (NPR)

Hunger Stones Bearing Ominous Messages Have Resurfaced in Drought-Stricken Europe (Mental Floss)

Archaeologists uncover one of oldest villages ever found in Nile Delta, Egypt (Global News Canada)

Melting Permafrost Reveals Gnarly 30,000-Year-Old Baby Horse (Motherboard)

'Amazing' archeological find in Yukon's melting ice patches — an intact atlatl dart (CBC)

Hidden Medieval Door Leading to Smugglers’ Caves Discovered Underneath Scottish Castle (Smithsonian.com)

Mask of Maya ruler Pakal unearthed in Palenque (Yucatan Expat Life)

Archaeologists use ancient dirty dishes to reconstruct climate shifts (Ars Technica)

Robots discover secret tunnel maze hiding the skeletons of three 'sacrifices' under 3,000 year old temple (Mirror UK)

Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: First discovery of an ancient-human hybrid (Nature)

Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges (LA Times)

Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean (Science)

Wikipedia Leads Effort to Create a Digital Archive of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in the Brazilian Museum Fire (Open Culture)

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