{
  "id": 15737192,
  "title": "Archaeologists Searching for Evidence of a Norse Church in Greenland Have Found 'the Smoking Gun' Near Erik the Red's Settlement",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/archaeologists-searching-for-evidence-of-a-norse-church-in-greenland",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-20T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-searching-for-evidence-of-a-norse-church-in-greenland-have-found-the-smoking-gu-near-erik-the-reds-settlement-180989716/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The site was first identified as a possible church decades ago, but researchers did not confirm that hunch until they found human remains there this summer. It could offer another clue to the Viking's unexplained 15th-century disappearance",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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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."
}