Didja read all about this eternal embrace archaeologists have discovered in Italy?

Question

They uncovered an apparently young couple buried together about 5000 years ago during the Neolithic period--and they were hugging each other! Is love forever or what?

I'll bet he was saying," I have to go, it's very late and I have to get up early for work tomorrow". And she said, " Oh no, you aren't leaving until we make up."

Answer 1

yep. Touching, stuff of hollywood.

Answer 2

It reminded me of a photo I saw. I think it was in a National Geographic coffee-table book of photos. The site was a city buried in a volcanic eruption(Herculaneum?) There was the skeleton of a woman cradling the skeleton of an infant with the skeleton of a man embracing them from behind. Amazing stuff.

Answer 3

that is cool and its a coincidente* that it happened near valentines day

Answer 4

oh wow that is so neat I have to look it up!

Answer 5

No, they got shot with arrows.

Answer 6

It reminds me of Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame):

CHAPTER IV.

THE MARRIAGE OF QUASIMODO.

We have just said that Quasimodo disappeared from Notre-

Dame on the day of the gypsy's and of the archdeacon's death.

He was not seen again, in fact; no one knew what had become

of him.

During the night which followed the execution of la

Esmeralda, the night men had detached her body from the

gibbet, and had carried it, according to custom, to the

cellar of Montfauçon.

Montfauçon was, as Sauval says, "the most ancient and the

most superb gibbet in the kingdom."  Between the faubourgs

of the Temple and Saint Martin, about a hundred and sixty

toises from the walls of Paris, a few bow shots from La

Courtille, there was to be seen on the crest of a gentle,

almost imperceptible eminence, but sufficiently elevated to

be seen for several leagues round about, an edifice of strange

form, bearing considerable resemblance to a Celtic cromlech, and

where also human sacrifices were offered.

Let the reader picture to himself, crowning a limestone hillock,

an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height, thirty wide,

forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform;

on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone,

thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of

the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together

at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung chains at intervals;

on all these chains, skeletons; in the vicinity, on the plain,

a stone cross and two gibbets of secondary importance, which

seemed to have sprung up as shoots around the central gallows;

above all this, in the sky, a perpetual flock of crows; that

was Montfauçon.

At the end of the fifteenth century, the formidable gibbet

which dated from 1328, was already very much dilapidated;

the beams were wormeaten, the chains rusted, the pillars

green with mould; the layers of hewn stone were all cracked

at their joints, and grass was growing on that platform which

no feet touched.  The monument made a horrible profile

against the sky; especially at night when there was a little

moonlight on those white skulls, or when the breeze of evening

brushed the chains and the skeletons, and swayed all these

in the darkness.  The presence of this gibbet sufficed to

render gloomy all the surrounding places.

The mass of masonry which served as foundation to the

odious edifice was hollow.  A huge cellar had been

constructed there, closed by an old iron grating, which

was out of order, into which were cast not only the human

remains, which were taken from the chains of Montfauçon, but

also the bodies of all the unfortunates executed on the other

permanent gibbets of Paris.  To that deep charnel-house, where

so many human remains and so many crimes have rotted in company,

many great ones of this world, many innocent people, have

contributed their bones, from Enguerrand de Marigni, the first

victim, and a just man, to Admiral de Coligni, who was its last,

and who was also a just man.

As for the mysterious disappearance of Quasimodo, this is all

that we have been able to discover.

About eighteen months or two years after the events which

terminate this story, when search was made in that cavern for

the body of Olivier le Daim, who had been hanged two days

previously, and to whom Charles VIII. had granted the favor

of being buried in Saint Laurent, in better company, they

found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one

of which held the other in its embrace.  One of these skeletons,

which was that of a woman, still had a few strips of a

garment which had once been white, and around her neck was

to be seen a string of adrézarach beads with a little silk bag

ornamented with green glass, which was open and empty.

These objects were of so little value that the executioner had

probably not cared for them.  The other, which held this one

in a close embrace, was the skeleton of a man.  It was noticed

that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his

shoulder blades, and that one leg was shorter than the other.

Moreover, there was no fracture of the vertebrae at the nape

of the neck, and it was evident that he had not been hanged.

Hence, the man to whom it had belonged had come thither

and had died there.  When they tried to detach the skeleton

which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust.

Answer 7

The were afraid and comforting each other because they knew they were going to die.