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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.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs
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Sweet, but what if it was a dirty trick.
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posted on
10/25/2011 4:42:36 PM PDT
by
SJackson
To: SJackson
“Sweet, but what if it was a dirty trick.”
Like putting Bill and Hillary Clinton together like that?
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posted on
10/25/2011 4:44:27 PM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: SJackson
Dirty trick. Right.
1500 year old Clinton remains found, woman in position
of adoration, no cigars found at site.
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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.)
To: SJackson
I hope they both died prior to being buried. ;-)
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posted on
10/25/2011 4:51:02 PM PDT
by
Average Al
(Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
To: SJackson
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posted on
10/25/2011 4:52:12 PM PDT
by
khnyny
(Our government has become Hal in "2001 A Space Odyssey")
To: SunkenCiv
To: SJackson
Maybe a suicide pact? Took the poison together?
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posted on
10/25/2011 5:01:58 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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.
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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)
To: SJackson; SunkenCiv
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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)
To: tet68
The position of the feller's hand certainly is Clintonesque -- he wasn't called the "Sink Emperor" for nothing....
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posted on
10/25/2011 6:36:46 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: colorado tanker; BenLurkin; decimon; Renfield; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; ...
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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.
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posted on
10/25/2011 7:00:56 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
The Beatles launched a career with this.
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posted on
10/25/2011 7:08:34 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: SJackson
Just like a man. She remains constant and his head turns at the next hip bone that saunters by.
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posted on
10/25/2011 8:44:33 PM PDT
by
marsh2
To: marsh2
Well...didn’t you see how big her hips had gotten?
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posted on
10/25/2011 9:38:53 PM PDT
by
blam
To: decimon
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posted on
10/25/2011 9:41:02 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
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posted on
10/25/2011 10:26:58 PM PDT
by
marsh2
To: SunkenCiv; blam
To: SJackson
That is FAR too long for a public display of affection!
;-)
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posted on
10/26/2011 6:06:34 AM PDT
by
Immerito
(Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
To: SJackson; All
So cynical. It’s obviously mummy and daddy.
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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.)
To: BenLurkin
Hmmm. Look again. It must have been a mutual pastime.
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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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