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    Posted: 05-Jan-2007 at 05:10

First Millenium BC, Hasanlu (an archaeological site in the north west of Iran)

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Hi!
 
Near by the Tisza archaeologists found a house from the 1240's, in the house an owen, in the owen a woman with her two children (a little girl and a boy), who had die in the owen... They were hide away from the mongols, who burned the house to ash. The family choked.
 
the father (a war pooved giant (he had some healed woonds) was a wood worker, he died with a woodaxe in his hand on the front of the house when he was pretending the village with the other men against the mongols.
 
His son hold in his little hands the wood-compass of his dad.
 
But your picture is wonderfull (if it shows a loving paar) and terrible too.
 
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(the edit opt. allows me to send just max. 15 Kb large picture. For you to?)


Edited by Tar Szernd - 05-Jan-2007 at 08:51
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  Quote Hellios Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-Jan-2007 at 06:09
2 love birds buried together?
 
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Sudden Death (eg.landslide,ash,duststorm?) or Intentional Burial Posture? Any thoughts?
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  Quote Northman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-Jan-2007 at 09:42
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri

First Millenium BC, Hasanlu (an archaeological site in the north west of Iran)

 
This is of course the grave of a great warrior or king (on the right), slain on battlefield (hole in the skull from a blow to the head).
The person on the left was his wife or a favorite female slave, probably killed (or suicide) to be buried with her master. She is positioned to be giving him a forever lasting loving kiss.
 
 
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  Quote milns Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09-Jan-2007 at 03:38
Archeology students joke
Un beidzot liecas un sašķīst viss kristīgo bars -
Nav pārspējams šodien tiem zemgaļu niknums un kaujas spars!
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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09-Jan-2007 at 09:16

Not a joke, you can find the same pic here:

Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization Documentation Center: http://www.ichodoc.ir/p-a/CHANGED/163/images/163_49_2B.JPG

University of Pennsylvania: http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0702/images/timehansanlu.gif

http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0702/timeline.html : 1974: The University Museum exhibits the Hasanlu Lovers, a pair of entwined skeletons who died together in about 8oo B.C.

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  Quote pekau Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09-Jan-2007 at 22:38
Weird, never expected to see some romance in the fossil...
     
   
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Strangely erotic.
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  Quote Dan Carkner Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-Jan-2007 at 09:48
Haha aww it's cute :(

Somehow it reminds me of this comic:

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