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  "id": 12592733,
  "title": "Sunken Silk Road city reveals Central Asia's lost history",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/sunken-silk-road-city-reveals-central-asias-lost-history-12592733",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-07T09:09:00.000Z",
  "source": {
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  "account": null,
  "summary": "Situated on an ancient trading route between China and Europe, little is known about the history of the settlement under Kyrgyzstan's largest lake or how it came to be flooded some 800 years ago.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Phys.org",
        "title": "Sunken Silk Road city reveals Central Asia's lost history",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/sunken-silk-road-city-reveals-central-asias-lost-history",
        "published": "2026-10-05T06:38:24.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "Sunken Silk Road city reveals Central Asia's lost history",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/sunken-silk-road-city-reveals-central-asias-lost-history",
        "published": "2026-10-07T01:28:12.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Mongabay",
        "title": "Wild tulips in Central Asia have become rare, expert says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/wild-tulips-in-central-asia-have-become-rare-expert-says",
        "published": "2026-10-07T10:53:31.000Z"
      }
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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."
}