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[Adventurer]

Eternal embrace? Couple still hugging 5,000 years on Tue Feb 6, 1:28 PM ET



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

[Happy Valentine's Day 5,000 year old couple and to the others out there.]

[swetepete]

I heard Tom Cruise had the old Italian stiffs encased in lucite and gave them to Katie Holmes for a wedding present.

Cool link though. And a good little creative writing assignment right there for the Toefl class: "Oldest hugging corpses: What's their story?"

Neolithic Romeo and Juliet kinda thing, I guess...or bad mushrooms...

[JMO]

Would be way cooler if they were spooning.

[gang ah jee]

Or doing it.

[princess]

[Grimalkin]

[swetepete]

[JMO]

[itaewonguy]

think its awesome!!
and its in ITALY!! country of love!!!

[Adventurer]

Well, the mediterranean is known for its stories of love. I remember even reading a story from Jewish lore where this fellow drowned trying to swim to his love. I am not sure how these people died, but being with the one you love for eternity must sound comforting in a way. In our day and age, we just hear of these television stories of superficial love, but these stories of old put that all to shame. This is a story, it seems, of utter devotion. I think it's a pretty cool story. It is a nice Valentine's week story. The couple had something a deep love that all seek.

[davai!]

The archaeologists promise to never seperate them. Everyone together.....awwwww!

[Adventurer]

[SPINOZA]

Cool.