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[Marina2005]

This is soooooooooooo sweet.......



Quote:
Tue Feb 6, 1:28 PM ET
ROME (Reuters) - Call it the eternal embrace.

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, hugging each other.

"It's an extraordinary case," said Elena Menotti, who led the team on their dig near the northern city of Mantova.

"There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging -- and they really are hugging."

Menotti said she believed the two, almost certainly a man and a woman although that needs to be confirmed, died young because their teeth were mostly intact and not worn down.

"I must say that when we discovered it, we all became very excited. I've been doing this job for 25 years. I've done digs at Pompeii, all the famous sites," she told Reuters.

"But I've never been so moved because this is the discovery of something special."

A laboratory will now try to determine the couple's age at the time of death and how long they had been buried.

[brother]

Eternal embrace 8)

[Crash Test Dummy]

burried alive after being caught in an act of necrophilia?

[Get Real!]

Quote: Menotti said she believed the two, almost certainly a man and a woman although that needs to be confirmed

I hate to ruin the romantic mood but if it’s discovered that they’re both the same gender then this would have to be the first known case of homosexuality on the planet and the city of Mantova may become the official capital of the Mardi Gras! :)

[Bananiot]

Marina, I apologise on behave of the last two posters who are hell bent to destroy a nice picture you obviously want to cherich.

Let me tell you a true story. Most of the plays put on by theatre groups in Cyprus are comedies. Serious plays do not have a good audience and they are simply not viable. A couple of years ago I went along to watch a play and it was a comedy, with english-type, phlegmatic lines which were hilarious but hardly appreciated by an audience used to explicit humour. Three quarters of the play went by and not a single soul made an effort to laugh or at least smile at a line. The actors and actresses must have become extremely frustrated. Then, a homosexual walked onto the stage and he moved with characteristic woman-like body movements. The house burst into laughter ...

Marina, we have similar pictures to the one you describe. In Khirokitia, a prehistoric mother was trying to shelter her kid from falling debris following an earth quake. Her arms are all over the minute baby and her skull is marked by a huge hole made by a falling stone, probably.

[Get Real!]

Bananiot...
Quote: Her arms are all over the minute baby and her skull is marked by a huge hole made by a falling stone, probably.

Hmm, either that or it's the first known case of a killer baby and a defensive mummy strangling it in time!

Some people may call this "Black" humor but I prefer to call it "academic" humor because both CTD and I are in fact applying Einstein's theory of relativity!

:)

[Bananiot]

I know, they must have been Turkish Cypriots, who else, other than a Turkish Cypriot mother would attempt to strangle her baby ... according to the Get Real logic!

[Alexios]

Bananiot wrote: Marina, I apologise on behave of the last two posters who are hell bent to destroy a nice picture you obviously want to cherich.

Let me tell you a true story. Most of the plays put on by theatre groups in Cyprus are comedies. Serious plays do not have a good audience and they are simply not viable. A couple of years ago I went along to watch a play and it was a comedy, with english-type, phlegmatic lines which were hilarious but hardly appreciated by an audience used to explicit humour. Three quarters of the play went by and not a single soul made an effort to laugh or at least smile at a line. The actors and actresses must have become extremely frustrated. Then, a homosexual walked onto the stage and he moved with characteristic woman-like body movements. The house burst into laughter ...

Marina, we have similar pictures to the one you describe. In Khirokitia, a prehistoric mother was trying to shelter her kid from falling debris following an earth quake. Her arms are all over the minute baby and her skull is marked by a huge hole made by a falling stone, probably.

I dont agree that Cypriots do not appreciate serious plays!!! Otherwise, how do you explain that all those serious Mexican series on our TV have such a huge audience??? :? :? :? :? I ve seen women shedding more tears watching these than Papadopoulos did during his famous speech before the referendum..... :roll: :roll: :roll:

[Get Real!]

Bananiot...
Quote: I know, they must have been Turkish Cyriots, who else, other than a Turkish Cypriot mother would attempt to strangle her baby ...

Now that is downright racist Bananiot…

The very first Turkish Cypriot wasn’t even due for another 6,500 odd years!

[zan]

The thing that got me in the picture I saw was that they are not just hugging each other but they are actually staring into each others eyes. I have never seen two skeletons looking so alive before. It really does look like a scene of love.

[Leyla]

@ Zan: I felt exactly the same thing..the whole scene is quite beautiful.

@ Marina: Thank you for sharing this story. I found another article for you that features the photo itself:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/07/prehistoric.love.ap/index.html

[Alexios]

As i watched them lay there,
Lifeless and yet so alive,
I wondered how they felt,in their final moments...
I wondered what they felt, as they stared
at each other.....
Was he a lover?
Or maybe just a brother...
We ll never find out i guess,
But i confess,
This picture touched my soul,
like a mellow breeze....
A timeless love?
A deep affection?
Whatever their connection,
they passed it on..
this spirit of eternal love,
some thousand years ago...
For us to wonder,
For us to ponder,
how they felt,as they left,
sweetly embracing each other...

[Bananiot]

Alexios, you old soul, yasasin!

[Marina2005]

@ Bananiot : Dont worry Get Real! and Crash can't change how I feel about that picture, I'm a romantic and thats one of the strongest scenes of love I have ever seen. ;-)

@ Leyla : thanks for the link, I think this article is definatley worth sharing.

@ Alexis : Moving poem, thanks for sharing it. ;-)

@ Zan : Your totally right about the eyes, amazing...

PS Its valentines next week, romance and love should be in the air, just dont go burying yourselves!! :wink: :wink:

[zan]

Alexios


I thought you might be secretly writing poems...I am presuming it is yours and if so why not more????





So we are all agreed, the Eyes have IT. :roll:



I wonder what My wife will think if I gave her her card, on valentines day with those two on it. Roses are old hat.... :lol: