{
  "id": 10437620,
  "title": "An ancient human face emerges from pieced together Moroccan fossil remains",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/an-ancient-human-face-emerges-from-pieced-together-moroccan-fossil",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-28T12:00:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-ancient-human-emerges-pieced-moroccan.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In the 1960s, a miner working at a mineral extraction site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, struck something far more valuable than any mineral in the area: a skull with distinctly humanlike features. After an initial examination, archaeologists excavated further and uncovered more remains, which they estimated to be around 40,000 years old. They identified the main skull as an African Neanderthal and…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}