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This
pair of skeletons,
found buried
in an embrace
that has lasted
for 6,000 years,
was unearthed
at an archelogical
site in Northern
Italy, 25 miles
south of Verona,
in an industrial
section of the
town of Mantua.
The remains
were originally
buried during
the late Stone
Age. A stone
knife and arrowheads
were also found
in the grave.
Elena Menotti,
the chief archaeologist
at the site
and a veteran
of 25 years
of excavations
including Pompeii
was moved by
the unique find.
"There
has not been
a double burial
found in the
Neolithic period,
much less two
people hugging
- and they really
are hugging,"
she explained.
The circumstances
of death and
burial will
be examined,
but the pair
will be allowed
to remain as
they have been,
undisturbed
for millennia.
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