Audio News for January 18th through the 24th, 2026

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Indonesian island of Sulawesi holds world’s oldest cave art almost 70,000 years old (details)(details)
• Oldest elephant-bone tool in Europe shows early human technological ability (details)(details)
• Ancient remains extend timeline of bacteria related to syphilis by more than 3,000 years (details)(details)
• Ancient mass burial in Jordan shows how massive plague reveals migration patterns (details)