Eternal Embrace?, Couple still hugging 5,000 years on Options

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Happy Valentines Day.

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

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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.