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Nobody expected anything unusual that morning.
The workers arrived before sunrise, carrying coffee cups and tools, preparing for another ordinary day of construction. The site had once been part of an old Georgia plantation, but by then almost nobody remembered its name. To most people, it was just another forgotten piece of land.
Then a shovel struck something hard.
At first, nobody paid much attention. Rocks were common in the area.
But this wasn’t a rock.
As the dirt was carefully cleared away, a silence settled over the crew.
Someone whispered, “That’s a bone.”