Hello and happy Christmas from us all here at the Naked Scientists. I'm Chris Smith.

We're back with a brand new series of the program from the 13th of January,

but in the meantime here's an episode of a brand new podcast we've recently launched called Naked Archaeology and featuring

Diana O'Carroll. Coming to a trench near you, Naked Archaeology.

Hello and welcome to Naked Archaeology.

Hello and welcome to Naked Archaeology with me Diner O' Carroll. This month I'll be looking at

underwater archaeology and burials including the oldest burial of a TB victim.

The sea levels rose and covered all the area.

The burials were then covered with silt, mud,, and it meant that the bones were kept at a constant temperature,

rather cold and probably no oxygen at all, and that is a very good environment for the bones to be preserved.

That's Helen Don Hugh who identified the DNA of the oldest known case of human TB.

And she'll be talking in just a moment. Another underwater story

comes in the form of some new technology being pioneered in the States.

They've developed a number of very interesting sensors that they put on these AUVs,

which are really under-water robots that they program to search an area,

and these things can go out and search an area and automatically identify targets on the bottom

based on features and actually send little snippet pictures back to the ship so people can actually

watch this stuff coming in real time.

So look out for a whole host of new maritime finds in the future.

I'll be speaking to Frank can tell us very soon

when I'll also be finding out about the new Babylon exhibition at the British

Museum.

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