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  "id": 9017151,
  "title": "Rusty Treasure Hidden in the Danube River May Be Europe's Largest Hoard of Prehistoric Iron Bars",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/rusty-treasure-hidden-in-the-danube-river-may-be-europes-largest",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-21T21:39:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Discover Magazine",
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    "url": "https://www.discovermagazine.com/rusty-treasure-hidden-in-the-danube-river-may-be-europe-s-largest-hoard-of-prehistoric-iron-bars-49705"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Learn how a project to extract gravel from the Danube River led to the discovery of a collection of iron bars weighing over one metric ton.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Phys.org",
        "title": "'Rusty treasure' find revealed as Europe's largest assemblage of prehistoric iron bars",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/rusty-treasure-find-revealed-as-europes-largest-assemblage-of",
        "published": "2026-09-20T23:00:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Live Science",
        "title": "'Nothing short of a minor miracle': 'Rusty treasure' found in the Danube is full of 2,000-year-old iron bars that could equip an entire army with weapons",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/nothing-short-of-a-minor-miracle-rusty-treasure-found-in-the-danube",
        "published": "2026-09-20T23:01:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "ScienceAlert",
        "title": "'Rusty Treasure' in Austria Revealed as Europe's Largest Cache of Iron Age Iron Bars",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/rusty-treasure-in-austria-revealed-as-europes-largest-cache-of-iron",
        "published": "2026-09-20T23:01:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Smithsonian",
        "title": "Workers Extracting Gravel From the Danube River Dredged Up a 2,200-Year-Old ‘Rusty Treasure’ That Could Have Equipped an Army",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/workers-extracting-gravel-from-the-danube-river-dredged-up-a-2-200",
        "published": "2026-09-22T12:00:00.000Z"
      }
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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."
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