New clues have emerged in what could be described as the world’s oldest murder case: that of Ozeti the “Iceman”, whose 5,300 year old body was discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991.
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New clues have emerged in what could be described as the world’s oldest murder case: that of Ozeti the “Iceman”, whose 5,300 year old body was discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991.
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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 an eternal embrace and buried outside Mantua, Italy, just 25 miles south of Verona, the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet.
After being found at the site where a factory is planned, people worldwide have speculated on the circumstances surrounding the couple’s deaths. They are thought to have died young because they both had all their teeth intact. But beyond that, the skeletons are a mystery. Archaeologists announced Monday that they will move the entire block of earth the skeletons are resting in for further study and eventual display in a museum.
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A Rock Art Field-School will be organised from 19 July – 9 August 2010, in Paspardo near Valcaminica in Lombardy (Italy).
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At least 27 tombs were recently discovered at Tarquinia, approximately 50 miles north of Rome. Some of these tombs date to at least as early as 700 BC. These pre-Roman recoveries also include frescoes and animal burials.... Read the full story in the Scotsman News.