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Roman-era couple held hands for 1,500 years
MSNBC/Discovery ^ | 10-25-11 | Rossella Lorenzi

Posted on 10/25/2011 4:42:32 PM PDT by SJackson

Archaeologists believe the pair was buried in a position of mutual adoration

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, told Discovery News.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs
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Sweet, but what if it was a dirty trick.
1 posted on 10/25/2011 4:42:36 PM PDT by SJackson
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“Sweet, but what if it was a dirty trick.”

Like putting Bill and Hillary Clinton together like that?


2 posted on 10/25/2011 4:44:27 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: SJackson

Dirty trick. Right.

1500 year old Clinton remains found, woman in position
of adoration, no cigars found at site.


3 posted on 10/25/2011 4:44:49 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SJackson

I hope they both died prior to being buried. ;-)


4 posted on 10/25/2011 4:51:02 PM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: SJackson

Love really is forever.


5 posted on 10/25/2011 4:52:12 PM PDT by khnyny (Our government has become Hal in "2001 A Space Odyssey")
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


6 posted on 10/25/2011 4:52:50 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: SJackson

Maybe a suicide pact? Took the poison together?


7 posted on 10/25/2011 5:01:58 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: Psalm 144
Like putting Bill and Hillary Clinton together like that?

They're both lawyers, they'd invoke the "till death do us part" thingie. Can't blame them.

8 posted on 10/25/2011 5:04:53 PM PDT by SJackson (Haven't changed the environment, just take a bath. Eat a piece of chocolate. You need one. Michelle)
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To: SJackson; SunkenCiv

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/dontknow.wav


9 posted on 10/25/2011 6:33:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: tet68
The position of the feller's hand certainly is Clintonesque -- he wasn't called the "Sink Emperor" for nothing....

10 posted on 10/25/2011 6:36:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: colorado tanker; BenLurkin; decimon; Renfield; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks colorado tanker and BenLurkin for the pings.

Note: this topic is from .

Blast from the Past.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

Just updating the GGG info, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


11 posted on 10/25/2011 7:00:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Beatles launched a career with this.


12 posted on 10/25/2011 7:08:34 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SJackson

Just like a man. She remains constant and his head turns at the next hip bone that saunters by.


13 posted on 10/25/2011 8:44:33 PM PDT by marsh2
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Well...didn’t you see how big her hips had gotten?


14 posted on 10/25/2011 9:38:53 PM PDT by blam
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To: decimon
The Beatles
15 posted on 10/25/2011 9:41:02 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

lol


16 posted on 10/25/2011 10:26:58 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: SunkenCiv; blam

Romeo and Juliette


17 posted on 10/26/2011 5:58:15 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: SJackson

That is FAR too long for a public display of affection!

;-)


18 posted on 10/26/2011 6:06:34 AM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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So cynical. It’s obviously mummy and daddy.


19 posted on 10/26/2011 8:11:38 AM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hmmm. Look again. It must have been a mutual pastime.


20 posted on 10/26/2011 8:31:04 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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