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Eternal Love

By Jillsabs - Posted on 14 February 2007

This photo provided by the [tag]Archaeological Society SA[/tag]P in Mantua, northern Italy, on Wednesday, Feb, 7, 2007 shows a pair of human skeletons found Monday Feb. 6 at a construction site outside [tag]Mantua[/tag]. Archaeologists unearthed the skeletons, believed to be a man and a woman, from the [tag]Neolithic[/tag] period, buried between 5000 to 6000 years ago. It could be humanity's oldest story of doomed love. - Yahoo News

For all we know, the couple in the picture, dubbed the "[tag]Lovers of Valdaro[/tag]" after the Italian suburb of farmland and factories where they were found, could have gotten stuck together for any number of non - romantic reasons. Perhaps they were cold. Maybe they were just arranged that way, to lie in state in adherence to some stone age ritual.

But although we all know that, we look at this picture and think, that, that must be the picture of [tag]love[/tag].

And the archeologists, scientific minded people that they are, seem to think so too:

A pair of human skeletons lie in an eternal embrace at an Neolithic archaeological dig site near Mantova, Italy, in this photo released February 6, 2007. Archaeologists in northern Italy believe the couple was buried 5,000-6,000 years ago, their arms still wrapped around each other in a hug that has lasted millennia. - Reuters

They died young and, by the looks of it, in love. Two 5,000-year-old skeletons found locked in an embrace near the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale "Romeo and Juliet" have sparked theories the remains of a far more ancient love story have been found. - Associated Press

So what is it that has brought about the romantic optimist even in the most pragmatic amongst us? Describing what could be just another innocent archeological, whose conditions we have no way of knowing, and finding in it a grand symbol of romance?

Why, love of course.

That, and the accompanying hope that like the "Lovers of Valdaro", we should all be so fortunate to find someone to be with forever.

Happy [tag]Valentine[/tag]'s Everyone!