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Roman-era couple reveal that the pair have been holding hands for around 1,500 years.
This photograph features the skeletal remains of a Roman-era couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years. Italian archaeologists say the duo was some time between the 5th and 6th century A.D. in central-northern Italy. They were excavated by archaeologist Licia Diamanti, who said the simple fossa (trench) tombs suggest that the people buried there were not particularly rich. "They were possibly the inhabitants of a farm," Labate said.
Donato Labate, the director of the excavation at the archaeological superintendency of Emilia-Romagna, told Discovery News, "We believe that they were originally buried with their faces staring into each other. The position of the man's vertebrae suggests that his head rolled after death."
