slammin shelby
Feb 7 2007, 09:29 AM
Happy Valentines Day.
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ROME (Reuters) - Call it the eternal embrace.
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Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, hugging each other.
"It's an extraordinary case," said Elena Menotti, who led the team on their dig near the northern city of Mantova.
"There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging -- and they really are hugging."
Menotti said she believed the two, almost certainly a man and a woman although that needs to be confirmed, died young because their teeth were mostly intact and not worn down.
"I must say that when we discovered it, we all became very excited. I've been doing this job for 25 years. I've done digs at Pompeii, all the famous sites," she told Reuters.
"But I've never been so moved because this is the discovery of something special."
A laboratory will now try to determine the couple's age at the time of death and how long they had been buried.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070206/sc_nm/italy_embrace_dc
KissMe2408
Feb 7 2007, 12:56 PM
wow. . . that's crazy.
very romantic.
well, as romantic, as being buried can be.
but still, that's pretty crazy.
minioligo
Feb 7 2007, 03:44 PM
Awwww. That's so romantic.
WHIMSICAL 0NE
Feb 7 2007, 07:54 PM
That's romantic... in a really creepy way.
Maybe their bodies were just put there that way
and when they decayed it looked like they were hugging.
HakunaMatata
Feb 7 2007, 07:57 PM
Yeah I doubt they
died that way, they were probably buried like that.
multifaceted
Feb 7 2007, 09:54 PM
Maybe they were making out. Then something happened to both of them and they fell down like that.
iDecay
Feb 7 2007, 09:56 PM
I don't find that romantic or cute at all. Just.. really creepy. They could've been doing it for all the archaeologists knows.
oXMuhNirvanaXo
Feb 7 2007, 09:58 PM
That is so cute!!
:-)
WHIMSICAL 0NE
Feb 7 2007, 10:15 PM
QUOTE(xMyStIcShAd0wSx @ Feb 7 2007, 8:54 PM)
Maybe they were making out. Then something happened to both of them and they fell down like that.
You don't want to know the image I just got in my mind. I have a very visual mind. Two people making out and then plop. Heh, sorry if I sound rude laughing at that. I just couldn't help myself.
me1issaaaa
Feb 7 2007, 10:45 PM
That's really sweet, in an odd way... I hope I have that, but at a very old age.
slammin shelby
Feb 8 2007, 01:29 PM
QUOTE(brownsugar @ Feb 7 2007, 8:41 PM)
What if they were brother and sister and they were acting up and their parents thought they were a disgrace to the family? So they killed them, but before the final blow the siblings clung onto each other for support in the form of an (embrace) and now they were discovered 5000 years later.
I don't know..two skeletons/fossils with intertwined bones ain't cute to me.
Uh. Wtf.
No. I think it's romantic. It might be an old couple who died.
Like in Tiantic when at the time the ship was sinking and the two old people who crawled into bed with each other because they knew they were going to die. It reminds me of that.
Stefanny
Feb 11 2007, 08:27 PM
I think it's adorable, and what Shelby said is really cute, too.
Haha, the skeletons do freak me out, though.
Comptine
Feb 11 2007, 08:35 PM
maybe it's like romeo and juliet. they couldn't be together so they committed suicide and with their last breaths, they said, "i love you", to each other.
romeo and juliet...were... in italy, right?
it is kinda romantic and sweet,
Rachel
Feb 12 2007, 12:10 AM
QUOTE(KissMe2408 @ Feb 7 2007, 10:56 AM)
wow. . . that's crazy.
very romantic.
well, as romantic, as being buried can be.
but still, that's pretty crazy.
Haha, exactly what I was thinking. I love the picture. It would make for a kinda creepy but still cute layout
My Cinderella.
Feb 12 2007, 05:49 PM
Wow, that's a pretty rare sight. I can't believe something like that could actually happen. How cute.
espressive
Feb 20 2007, 10:13 PM
Why does everybody keep saying that they couldn't be buried like that?
It's totally possible!
Like in Pompeii, people were covered in mounds of ash and soot within a short period of time.
The couple could've clung onto eachother, knowing their fate.
Or maybe I just have a dreamy mind.
emazing
Feb 21 2007, 02:48 AM
Amazing and adorable. It looks as if they're about to smooch, too.
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