Feb 7, 2007


Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet lay buried side by side in his famous play. Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, the romantic city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet!

Buried between 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, the prehistoric lovers are believed to have been a man and a woman and are thought to have died young, as their teeth were found intact. Double burials from the Neolithic period are unheard of, and these are even hugging!!

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