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…
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but it’s beautiful to think about . . .
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It is.
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I feel that it is a great shame that their eternal embrace was disturbed. Some things are better left untroubled by our curiosity. (Interesting though, nonetheless…)
Best wishes, Pete.
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I rather agree.
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