The Lovers of Valdaro are a 6,000 year old Neolithic skeleton couple who were found buried together in Mantua, Italy. They were both around 20, both 5′2, and had no...
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The Lovers of Valdaro are a 6,000 year old Neolithic skeleton couple who were found buried together in Mantua, Italy. They were both around 20, both 5′2, and had no...
Lover's Eye locket - Probably British - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Ten years later, in 1978, the dig started. The archaeologists found layers and layers of stone protecting an underlying burial chamber. In fact, it was a double chamber.
Alice Roberts • The Celts: Search for a Civilization
The eruption also preserved the forms of many of the dying as the ash compacted around their bodies. Although the soft tissue decayed, the outlines of the bodies remained and were recovered by excavators centuries later by filling the cavities with plaster. From skeletal material embedded in the casts, we generated genome-wide ancient DNA and... See more