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“Two skeletons found in central-northern Italy reveal the couple was buried holding hands some 1,500 years ago.


By Rossella Lorenzi


The skeletal remains of a Roman-era couple reveal the pair has been holding hands for 1,500 years.
Italian archaeologists say the man and woman were buried at the same time between the 5th and 6th century A.D. in central-northern Italy. Wearing a bronze ring, the woman is positioned so she appears to be gazing at her male partner.
“We believe that they were originally buried with their faces staring into each other. The position of the man’s vertebrae suggests that his head rolled after death,” Donato Labate, the director of the excavation at the archaeological superintendency of Emilia-Romagna, told Discovery News.”

    kalakaiya:

    “Two skeletons found in central-northern Italy reveal the couple was buried holding hands some 1,500 years ago.
    By Rossella Lorenzi

    The skeletal remains of a Roman-era couple reveal the pair has been holding hands for 1,500 years.

    Italian archaeologists say the man and woman were buried at the same time between the 5th and 6th century A.D. in central-northern Italy. Wearing a bronze ring, the woman is positioned so she appears to be gazing at her male partner.

    “We believe that they were originally buried with their faces staring into each other. The position of the man’s vertebrae suggests that his head rolled after death,” Donato Labate, the director of the excavation at the archaeological superintendency of Emilia-Romagna, told Discovery News.”

    Tagged: who doesnt love stuff like this? amiright?

    Posted on December 29, 2011 via Kala with 50 notes

    Source: MSNBC

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