Routine Construction Works Unearths Life-Threatening Historic Relic

Just Like Any Other Day

In 2016, a construction team was laboring in Augsburg, one of the oldest cities in Germany. Their main focus was to lay down the foundation as quickly as possible, and thankfully, they hadn’t run into any significant issues.

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All the workers were tasked with digging down, and while it is common to find old discarded items hidden beneath the dirt, the thing that one of the large machinery stumbled upon left the men running away for their lives.