News items read by Laura Kennedy include: <ul> <li>Ancient solar monument predates Stonehenge alignment (<a href="https://arkeonews.net/a-surprising-5000-year-old-monument-discovered-in-england-stonehenges-solar-secret-may-be-older-than-we-thought/">details</a>)</li> <li>Hunter-gatherer burials reveal earliest known plague outbreak (<a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/plague-outbreak-oldest-hunter-gatherers">details</a>) (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10540-5">details</a>)</li> <li>Archaeologists uncover evidence of large-scale fishing in the Canary Islands (<a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-06-canary-island-relics-clues-north.html">details</a>) (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0349347">details</a>)</li> <li>Second Alamo cannonball sheds light on famous 1836 battle (<a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/americas/its-a-huge-deal-archaeologists-discover-second-cannonball-from-the-battle-of-the-alamo-and-it-was-likely-fired-by-texans">details</a>)</li> </ul>