Eternal embrace? Couple still hugging 5,000 years on

[myjaja]

ROME (Reuters) - Call it the eternal embrace.

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.

Kind of sad. 🙁

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[rivan]

She had to have been pretty hot.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: Pioneer Premier
Very sad. 🙁

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I don't find it sad at all. I'd much rather die at the same time as my husband, at any age, than for either of us to be left alone. I probably wouldn't much have the opportunity to care where/how I was buried, but it's a nice idea to be buried hugging him.

 

[lobbyone]

Eternal indeed

 

[JulesMaximus]

So, did they separate them? 😀

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
So, did they separate them? 😀

😉 so wrong, but I smirked.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: Pioneer Premier
Very sad. 🙁

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I don't find it sad at all. I'd much rather die at the same time as my husband, at any age, than for either of us to be left alone. I probably wouldn't much have the opportunity to care where/how I was buried, but it's a nice idea to be buried hugging him.

QFT

However, it would be creepy to be buried hugging your SO if it were in any circumstance other than a simultaneous death. 😛

- M4H

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

are they sure they didn't choke eachother to death. It looks like the one on the left is choking the other one.

 

[linuxboy]

Oh sweet embrace and deep, eternal slumber
Far hidden now in earth's long-veiled womb
To lie, to rest by you for days without number
And still beside you in our death and tomb

Cheers ! 🙂

 

[myjaja]

Originally posted by: linuxboy
Oh sweet embrace and deep, eternal slumber
Far hidden now in earth's long-veiled womb
To lie, to rest by you for days without number
And still beside you in our death and tomb

Cheers ! 🙂

nice :thumbsup:

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: linuxboy
Oh sweet embrace and deep, eternal slumber
Far hidden now in earth's long-veiled womb
To lie, to rest by you for days without number
And still beside you in our death and tomb

Cheers ! 🙂

:heart:

 

[SlowSpyder]

Thousands of years from now they'll find me and my wife in a doggy style position. The question on everyones mind will be, "Who died first?" :Q

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Thousands of years from now they'll find me and my wife in a doggy style position. The question on everyones mind will be, "Who died first?" :Q

And they'll also wonder if its the reverse cowgirl?

It'd be messed up if the real story is that the alpha male of the group caught that youngin with his bitch and killed them.

Sorry, dunno what stage of development humanity was 5000 years ago and whether or not we still lived in groups with social standings like prides and wolf packs.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: Pioneer Premier
Very sad. 🙁

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I don't find it sad at all. I'd much rather die at the same time as my husband, at any age, than for either of us to be left alone. I probably wouldn't much have the opportunity to care where/how I was buried, but it's a nice idea to be buried hugging him.

Agreed.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Thousands of years from now they'll find me and my wife in a doggy style position. The question on everyones mind will be, "Who died first?" :Q

And they'll also wonder if its the reverse cowgirl?

It'd be messed up if the real story is that the alpha male of the group caught that youngin with his bitch and killed them.

Sorry, dunno what stage of development humanity was 5000 years ago and whether or not we still lived in groups with social standings like prides and wolf packs.

Well, yeah. We still do. Didn't you ever go to public school?

 

[johnjbruin]

If they were just f#$%king passionately, after all the skin/muscle is gone and only the bone remains, it would look like they were hugging.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: johnjbruin
If they were just f#$%king passionately, after all the skin/muscle is gone and only the bone remains, it would look like they were hugging.

So I guess now, they're boning, no matter how you look at it.

One might even say, "They're boned."

 

[waggy]

man it was just a part two of the snickers commercial!

 

[dennilfloss]

Reminds me of the ending of Zardoz. 😎