For Eternity

This is pretty interesting... I think this would be even better if they knew who these people were and what happened to them.


From: http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0207-skeleton.html

Archaeologists unearthed a pair of human skeletons lying in an eternal embrace at a construction site outside Mantua, 25 miles south of Verona, the city featured in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." The skeletons date are thought to be 5,000-6,000 years ago.

Elena Menotti, the archaeologist who led the team on the dig, told the Associated Press that it was the first time a Neolithic couple had been found in such a position.

Image courtesy of the Archaeological Society SAP in Mantua, northern Italy

"As far as we know, it's unique," Menotti is quoted by The Associated Press as saying. "Double burials from the Neolithic are unheard of, and these are even hugging."

Tooth records indicate the male-female couple was young at the time of death, but it is unclear as to the nature of their relationship.

The annoucement came just a week before Valentine's Day.