Eternal embrace? Couple still hugging 5,000 years on:For Valentines day - by Gillie
Scots Taffer on 13/2/2007 at 12:12
Brainfart on my part. It is she-wolves, indeed. Lupo = wolf. Yeah, the women walked around the streets in the evening howling at the moon, or whatever, and this was to entice the men and let them know the brothel was open for business.
Uncia on 13/2/2007 at 12:41
lol furries
Schattentänzer on 13/2/2007 at 12:55
I love how (
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bkharvey/roman/classes/graffiti.htm) some things didn't change at all..
Quote Posted by Pompeii, graffiti above a bench outside the Marine Gate
If anyone sits here, let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for Attice; she costs 4 sestertii.
Quote Posted by Pompeii, graffiti in the basilica
Phileros is an eunuch!
Quote Posted by Pompeii, graffiti in the basilica
The one who buggers a fire burns his penis
Quote Posted by Pompeii, graffiti in the basilica
Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they ever have before!
Ko0K on 14/2/2007 at 02:37
Quote Posted by BrokenArts
Why is this news? Because of the position they were found in.
Scots, that's awesome, I envy you being able to visit those places.
Quote Posted by Vasquez
Yeah, and not because the hugging makes people feel all sappy, but because it seems it's very different from the usual way of burial of that site/time.
And some happy idiots have already stated they should be left alone, GIVE me a BREAK! There's gotta be some sensible limit to "romantic" :rolleyes:
You know, I was thinking they were making a big deal out of this because archaeology hasn't been in the spotlight for quite some time, and they needed any excuse to draw attention to it. Now, I'd think it's a huge, huge deal if 5000-y.o. remains of people locked in reverse doggy-style position were discovered, but hugging? That's pretty fucking lame.
Tocky on 14/2/2007 at 05:29
Honestly I think my first impulse would be to cover them back up too. It would feel much like an intrusion, stumbling upon the site of lovers in tender embrace my first impulse wouldn't be to shove a hand up thier asses to see what they had for dinner.
The very fact they were buried thus suggests a reverence of thier feelings for each other from those who knew them in life. Of course that very sociological fact demands we chip them to tiny pieces to discover why. Nothing sacred with science. We have to know why because... well, perhaps we can dig up the acheologists centuries hence and discover why.
Yes I know they will be encased for us all to ogle and not broken to pieces. That was just to illustrate. And I have no qualms discovering the development of ancient custom. I do understand the roots of decency though and why they might be treated with a tad more respect. They once walked where we walk and along the way found the thing that makes the walk worth it. Perhaps that's more important than what we have for dinner.
On the other hand maybe they died of a Glasgow kiss. Just look at those cracked skulls.
Printer's Devil on 14/2/2007 at 05:48
Quote Posted by Shayde
My (then) virgin sensibilities faced a huge shock here. Each tiny cubicle has a painting above the door depicting the act offered inside. I suppose each generation likes to think itself innovative but those people had some serious kink/ flexibility to them.
I seem to remember a very cheeky kitchen-sink faucet, but I missed the advertisements.
Vasquez on 14/2/2007 at 06:40
Quote Posted by Tocky
They once walked where we walk and along the way found the thing that makes the walk worth it. Perhaps that's more important than what we have for dinner.
Yes yes, love is important and all that. But because they're
dead (and have been such a long while, that it's unlikely anyone from their immediate family is gonna turn up to bitch and whine either) I have a strong suspicion they don't really give a crap.
Honestly, in real life I'm somewhat a romantic and the story behind that couple might move my heart, but getting all teary-eyed over a pile of ancient bones and acting like they could feel, think or be offended by digging them up seems just... weird.
Gillie on 14/2/2007 at 13:09
I don't think those Remains should be put on display.
Maybe try and find out about them. Then they should re-bury them.
I think it would be wrong to dislay them somehow. Though there are a lot of such skeletons. It does not seem right.
It looks like there has been damage done to their skulls as well. Certainly looks like it.
Maybe they will find that out. They may be very ancient,but think they should put them back again.
Vasquez on 14/2/2007 at 13:51
Quote Posted by Gillie
I think it would be wrong to dislay them somehow.
Yep, the fundies would instantly scream skeleton porn and "Think about the children!!!" :p
Ookay, it's Valentine's, so I admit they're kinda sweet.
Dia on 14/2/2007 at 14:18
Quote Posted by Tocky
The very fact they were buried thus suggests a reverence of thier feelings for each other from those who knew them in life.
Or they could have been mortal enemies and whoever buried them had a nasty sense of humor.
Speculations run rampant sometimes. I find it interesting that an expert claimed that Neolithic burials were almost always single burials. So whatever the reason, their burial was definitely out of the ordinary.
I'd love to know their story, but agree that perhaps they should be interred with a bit more respect.
