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"I am so thrilled at this find. I have been involved in lots of digs all over Italy but nothing has excited me as much as this."
"I've been doing this job for 25 years. I've done digs at Pompeii, all the famous sites.
"But I've never been so moved because this is the discovery of something special."
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That's lead archaeologist Elena Menotti, describing this find: of a couple who have been embracing each other for over 5000 years.
They were buried together during the Neolithic peroid, near Mantua, Italy - and they were just discovered yesterday.
But it's not completely romantic:
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One theory being examined is that the man was killed and the woman then sacrificed so that his soul would be accompanied in the after life.
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Daily Mail story via
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