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It could be humanity's oldest story of doomed love. Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender eternal 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 and 6,000 years ago, the prehistoric pair are believed to have been a man and a woman and are thought to have died young, as their teeth were found intact. The burial site was located during construction work for a factory building . Anthropologists said double prehistoric burials are rare - especially in such a pose. The two bodies, which cuddle closely while facing each other on their sides, a sign of a great love which has transcended time, were probably buried at the same time, an indication of a possible sudden and tragic death.
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