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I'll love you forever: lovers locked in 6000 year embrace.  :)

Mantua is the city to which Romeo was exiled, and told of Juliet’s death.  It is also the setting for composer Guiseppe Verdi’s opera Rigoletto, about another pair of star-crossed lovers.  So it’s fitting that these 6 000 year-old skeletons were found there, face-to-face with legs and arms intertwined and locked in an eternal embrace.

When they were first found in 2007, it was believed that they could have been killed.  But forensic evidence suggests a more peaceful death.  They possibly froze to death huddled together one night, or were more likely buried together in their position.  Called the Lovers of Valdaro, they are a man and woman between 18 and 20 years old.

They are now temporarily displayed in the Museum of Mantua, and a local association is seeking to secure the lovers a permanent room where visitors from around the world can see them.

ON REPEAT: SBTRKT - TRIALS OF THE PAST

I have to confess I'm totally obsessed with this track. too fresh! (thanks anthony)

"The ghoulish entities they come floating through the walls. Ghostly enemies they come floating through your door."

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