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1,600-year-old hands-clasped skeletons were young men: Study
short by Dishant Sharma / on Monday, 16 September, 2019
The 'Lovers of Modena', a pair of 1,600-year-old skeletons found buried with their hands clasped together, are a couple of young men, a study has found. The pair was found in a Late Antiquity cemetery dating to around sixth century CE. The study states that mass media had assumed the pair to be a male-female couple after the skeletons' discovery.