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  "id": 873602,
  "title": "19 Creepy Catacombs Around the World You Can Visit",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/19-creepy-catacombs-around-the-world-you-can-visit",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-11T09:35:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Atlas Obscura",
    "slug": "atlas-obscura",
    "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-catacombs-around-the-world"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Catacombs—underground rooms and tunnels used as cemeteries—date back to first-century Rome, but the most famous (and infamous) were created across Europe in the 17th century. Overcrowding in Paris’s more traditional burial spaces, as well as sanitation issues, led authorities to turn the miles of tunnels connecting quarries under the city into crypts. It’s believed that more than six million…",
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  "coverage": {
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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."
}