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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

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To: OrangeHoof
Maybe a suicide pact? Took the poison together?

My first thought. If there were no signs of trauma, like broken bones that indicated an accident, then the suicide pact is likely.

In some distant and unrelated way, a scene from "Return of the Living Dead" came to mind, where the warehouse guy asks "How come all these skeletons have perfect teeth?"

21 posted on 10/26/2011 9:24:24 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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My first thought. If there were no signs of trauma, like broken bones that indicated an accident, then the suicide pact is likely.

Or an epidemic. Lots of opportunities to die an early death back then.

22 posted on 10/26/2011 2:50:02 PM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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