Strange but true: Couple still hugging 5,000 years on

[entanglement]

"Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a couple buried in eternal embrace."

Definitely worth a look

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17011786/

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Not trying to be morbid...

But, that would make for an awesome sculptured wall art piece! (as a reproduction, of course)

Eternal Embrace

[Zookeeper]

3. It is strangely beautiful. n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. it really is...

I'm intrigued by it. It really humanizes our distant ancestors

[VenusRising]

2. It's actual very moving.

It makes me wonder who they were, what happened to them, and what they loved so much about each other.

[Omphaloskepsis]

7. Or someone had a failed attempt at using someone else as a human shield..

</negative nelly> I love cuddle time.. I hope they died happy. I hope I do..

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Now there's eternal love for you ....

I also wonder about the backstory on this one.......

Thanks for posting this...

:hi:

[entanglement]

10. Thanks

:hi:

[xchrom]

6. the original romeo and juliet?

The article says the couple were young, probably male and female -- and now i'm wondering if shakespeare was tapping into a mythic story?

a story that is just with us -- in our bones.

hmmmm.

[stuntcat]

8. lava

I thought they must have died fast in lava but the article doesn't tell that. It does say Pompeii though so that must be what happened, suddenly buried. OH I can't imagine the Drama :o

[stuntcat]

11. nope

that wouldn't have left the bones and they're older than the eruption. They did hug each other to die.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. It makes me think of Ayla and Jondalar from the "Earth's Children"

"Clan of the Cave Bear" series.

[Ptah]

12. Here's a longer article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=434454&in_page_id=1770

"An initial examination of the couple - dubbed the Lovers of Valdaro - revealed
that the man (on the left in the picture) has an arrow in his spinal column while
the woman has an arrow head in her side.

The area has already given up a spectacular Roman villa.

Five thousand years ago the area around Mantua was marshland and
criss-crossed by rivers and the environment has helped preserve the
skeletons in their near perfect state.

The tribes of the area thrived through hunting and fishing and travelled
along the waterways in boats but even then the simple hunter gatherer
lifestyle was being replaced by livestock rearing, weaving and pottery."

[Burma Jones]

13. You sure it's not this:

[Orsino]

14. IBTL

Actually, it appears she's trying to get a piece of spinach that's wedged in his teeth.

[Thothmes]

15. Buried in eternal embrace

I think its touching, but what are the chances that the female may have been sacrificed to accompany the male into the next world.