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Thread #98826   Message #1961379
Posted By: beardedbruce
08-Feb-07 - 01:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Lovers...
Subject: BS: Lovers...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/07/prehistoric.love.ap/index.html

"ROME, Italy (AP) -- It could be humanity's oldest story of doomed love.

Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua. The site is just 25 miles south of Verona, the romantic city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of "Romeo and Juliet.""