together forever

A day before Valentine's day, my friend, Gillian showed me this picture. I was busy doing something at that time, I told her that I would read the news about it later that day, but then I forgot. Earlier this afternoon I just remembered about the picture. I searched, found it and read the article about this interesting picture.

The article said that the skeletons are found in Rome. The pair were buried between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago in the late Neolithic period. The burial was unearthed on the outskirts of Mantua during a construction work. The site is 25 miles south of Verona, the city where Shakespeare set the story of "Romeo and Juliet".

The archeologist will do some test to verify their sex and search for signs of illness or other possible causes of death. After undergoing labtest, the couple are to be displayed at Mantua's Archaeological Museum.

Eventough it could be impossible to determine the exact nature of their relationship and how they died, there is little doubt that their pose was born of a deep love. They were found in such a touching pose. It's really interesting how a couple could spend their life in love with each other until the day they died.

That's what I called together forever, literally...