Love forever: Italy's embracing skeletons to be left in peace

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2007

ROME (AFP) — A pair of 6,000-year-old skeletons found by Italian archaeologists in a dying embrace will not be separated, team leader Elena Menotti has told AFP.

"We will do everything possible to preserve the bodies in the exact position of their grave," she said Wednesday. "There's no question of breaking their embrace."

The skeletons were found last week during digging in an industrial zone near the northern city of Mantua and the find will be displayed at the city's archaeological museum.

While scientists are still puzzling over how the pair died and why they were buried in this way, Menotti said their embrace was "testimony to a great feeling of love that has transcended time.

"For regardless of why they were buried in each other's arms, there...