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| Skeletons locked in eternal embrace. It could be humanity's oldest story of doomed love. Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in an eternal embrace and buried outside Mantua, Italy, just 25 miles south of Verona, the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet. After being found at the site where a factory is planned, people worldwide have speculated on the circumstances surrounding the couple's deaths. They are thought to have died young because they both had all their teeth intact. But beyond that, the skeletons are a mystery. Archaeologists announced Monday that they will move the entire block of earth the skeletons are resting in for further study and eventual display in a museum. source |
This image touches my heart & makes me want to have a really good sob...It is incredible that there is the skeletal evidence of these two people who tenderly faced each other, entwined in embrace at the moment of death & so far beyond.
I look at this image & try and imagine what is most moving about it...
It could be that it is so obvious that they loved or were infatuated with one another - whatever the circumstances around their death...
...or that it is so beautiful that two people who adored one another, have their remains on this earth - that they have not been separated after death...
...or that I see myself lying in a similar posture with my love - close to him each precious night & I feel so blessed to have him - knowing we have a limited time on this planet together in human form: it makes my heart ache to think of it ever ending.
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