08-09-2009, 02:34 PM
I found this 2007 story too late for Valentine's Day this year; don't want to wait until next year. 
It's about a rare, late Neolithic double burial found on a contruction site near Mantua, Italy (about 25 miles south of Verona, where Shakespeare set his story of "Romeo and Juliet"). About 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, the young man and woman apparently died at about the same time, and they were buried in an affectionate pose. After discovery, their remains were moved together to a museum, their positions kept intact in the original soil block.
USAToday story link: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/di ... tine_x.htm
Flickr images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/galaxyfm/3 ... 2/sizes/o/
(six sizes available, from 75 x 75 pixels to 2250 x 3000 pixels)
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It's about a rare, late Neolithic double burial found on a contruction site near Mantua, Italy (about 25 miles south of Verona, where Shakespeare set his story of "Romeo and Juliet"). About 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, the young man and woman apparently died at about the same time, and they were buried in an affectionate pose. After discovery, their remains were moved together to a museum, their positions kept intact in the original soil block.
USAToday story link: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/di ... tine_x.htm
Flickr images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/galaxyfm/3 ... 2/sizes/o/
(six sizes available, from 75 x 75 pixels to 2250 x 3000 pixels)
AMDG
Wm. / *r
Wm. / *r
