Patriot Heart
02-06-2007, 06:59 PM
Locked in an eternal embrace
Last updated at 23:57pm on 6th February 2007
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Their loving embrace has lasted an eternity - well 5000 years to be precise
It is the city where the exiled Romeo dreamed he died and Juliet's kisses breathed life back into his body.
Tragically, the lifeless bodies of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers would soon lie side by side.
Yesterday at Mantua, in an amazing echo of that heartrending story, archaeologists revealed the discovery of a couple locked in a tender embrace, one that has endured for more than 5,000 years. The find was unearthed by experts digging at a neolithic site at a less than romantic industrial estate. Scientists are to examine the skeletons to try to establish how old they were when they died and how long they have been buried.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=434454&in_page_id=1770
Last updated at 23:57pm on 6th February 2007
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/02_1/skeletonsDM060207_228x304.jpg
Their loving embrace has lasted an eternity - well 5000 years to be precise
It is the city where the exiled Romeo dreamed he died and Juliet's kisses breathed life back into his body.
Tragically, the lifeless bodies of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers would soon lie side by side.
Yesterday at Mantua, in an amazing echo of that heartrending story, archaeologists revealed the discovery of a couple locked in a tender embrace, one that has endured for more than 5,000 years. The find was unearthed by experts digging at a neolithic site at a less than romantic industrial estate. Scientists are to examine the skeletons to try to establish how old they were when they died and how long they have been buried.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=434454&in_page_id=1770