Who said romance is dead?

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.

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On the Today Show this morning, they said that they are speculating that the man was killed and the woman was sacrificed. Excuse me, hellooooooooo, I can come up with a much better story!!

I think that their village was attacked by bandits or pirates or whatever and these people were left for dead. In reality though, neither were dead. One of them (I'm guessing the man, I think the report I heard this morning said that woman had a head wound where he had had a chest wound) crawled to the other to comfort them and be with them to the bitter end. This truly sweet, sad but none the less sweet. Now, 6,000 years later, we can see true love. Or stupidity, whatever, it's a tough call.