did you hear about the two skeletons found in rome?

Question

did you hear about that

Answer 1

YEAH YOU READ ME THAT ARTICLE THAT IS WHAT I DID FOR MY CURRENT EVENT!! LOVE YA BABY

Answer 2

no... but did you hear this one...., a blonde needed more blank white paper, so she went to the Xerox machine to make copies

ROME — They died young and, by the looks of it, in love. Two 5,000-year-old skeletons found locked in an embrace near the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale "Romeo and Juliet" have sparked theories the remains of a far more ancient love story have been found.

Archaeologists unearthed the skeletons dating back to the late Neolithic period outside Mantua, 25 miles south of Verona, the city of Shakespeare's story of doomed love.

Buried between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, the prehistoric pair are believed to have been a man and a woman and are thought to have died young, because their teeth were found intact, said Elena Menotti, the archaeologist who led the dig.

"As far as we know, it's unique," Menotti told The Associated Press by telephone from Milan. "Double burials from the Neolithic are unheard of, and these are even hugging."

Archaeologists digging in the region have found some 30 burial sites, all single, as well as the remains of prosperous villages filled with artifacts made of flint, pottery and animal horns.

Although the Mantua pair strike an unusual and touching pose, archaeologists have found other prehistoric burials in which the dead hold hands or have other contact, said Luca Bondioli, an anthropologist at Rome's National Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum.

Bondioli, who was not involved in the Mantua dig, said the find has "more of an emotional than a scientific value." But it does highlight how the relationship people have with each other and with death has not changed much from the period in which humanity first settled in villages, learning to farm the land and tame animals, he said.

"The Neolithic is a very formative period for our society," he said. "It was when the roots of our religious sentiment were formed."

Menotti said the burial was "a ritual, but we have to find out what it means."

Experts might never determine the exact nature of the pair's relationship, but Menotti said she had little doubt it was born of a deep sentiment.

"It was a very emotional discovery," she said. "From thousands of years ago we feel the strength of this love. Yes, we must call it love."

The couple's burial site was located Monday during construction work for a factory in the outskirts of Mantua. Alongside the couple, archaeologists found flint tools, including arrowheads and a knife, Menotti said.

Experts will now study the artifacts and the skeletons to determine the burial site's age and how old the two were when they died, she said. The finds will then go on display at Mantua's Archaeological Museum.

Establishing the cause of death could prove almost impossible, unless they were killed by a debilitating disease, a knife or something else that might have left marks on the bones, Menotti said.

The two bodies, which cuddle closely while facing each other on their sides, were probably buried at the same time, an indication of a possible sudden and tragic death, Bondioli said.

He said DNA testing could determine whether the two were related, "but that still leaves other hypotheses; the Romeo and Juliet possibility is just one of many."

Answer 3

Didn't hear about it but I read about it and saw the picture, Gee it was nice to see dear old Mom and Dad again! (JUST JOKING)
Here's something interesting you can do. Get a copy of the picture, show it someone then ask them to quickly point to which one is the female. I'll bet you'll find the greater percentage will point to the left skeleton. Have fun.

Answer 4

No, but I heard about a couple of skeletons embraced nearby Verona. That's pretty amazing as Verona was the setting for Romeo and Julliet. Nice coincidence. I feel like God's having fun.

Answer 5

Yes, I did. Was a cool discovery. You'd think Rome was all discovered out, but nope.

Answer 6

Yes, I read about it. Isn't is amazing that after all this time! They say the couple was buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago.

Answer 7

i heard last night it was in the city that Romeo and Juliet supposedly lived and died. I thought that was so interesting.

Answer 8

Yeah, they were embracing eachother. Romantic x 09258

Answer 9

Yes. They were hugging while covered in olive oil.

Answer 10

No but to me it sound like Remus and Romulus. But one of them drowned in the Tiber.

Answer 11

I did. It would be really interesting to know the whole story, and why they were that way.