Two 8,000-year-old 'Romeo and Juliet' skeletons

Recently, there are two skeletons in the body like hugging each other that archaeologists found in Turkey. These two skeletons may have been more than 6,000 BC (up to now, it is 8,000 years old).

Two skeletons were discovered in a posture embracing in a tomb in Turkey. This seems to be the topic of the oldest love story that will live forever. These two skeletons may be from a 30-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. They were discovered last week, in northeastern Turkey (Diyarbakir Province, Bismil region) in the background of an old house in the Hakemi Use area.

According to Halil Tekin, research leader, a researcher at Hacettepe University in Ankara: 'Researchers have estimated that the skeleton dates from about 6100 BC.'

These people may belong to the ancient Hassuna culture - a flourishing culture in northern Iraq.

'The way the two skeletons are buried, shows that these are two lovers. Maybe they died of a disease or some love sin. We will know more about them after school anthropologists complete the examination. ' - Speaking before Anatolia news agency of Tekin.

Two skeletons discovered in a pose embrace in a tomb in Turkey . (Photo: National Geographic)

The Hakemi Use area will be submerged in the water when the Ilisu dam on the Tigris River is completed and Tekin has carried out dredging since 2001. So far, the dredging process has discovered appliances made of ceramics of the Hassunans. This shows that this culture stretches from northern Mesopotamia to Turkey.

Tekin wrote: 'Hakemi Use has now become the northernmost border of Hassuna / Samarra pottery in the Near East.' If the couple died about 8,000 years ago, the time they would live would coincide with the time when the Hassunans ruled the area. And of course, no one would agree with a romantic version of the skeleton just excavated.

'The picture doesn't really show these two people hugged each other. Both are in a bent position, leaning on each other, but the word 'hug' is not correct when used to express this posture. ' Lamberg- Karlovsky belongs to the Archaeological Museum and Peabody University - Harvard University.

'Maybe this is the same two people who die one day and are buried together. Maybe it was two brothers or two sisters who died of the disease. Also, it does not exclude the possibility that it is two men. Until they're doing DNA testing and looking at the genetic similarity between them, there's no way to know more about these skeletons. ' Yossi Garfinkel, the Institute of Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said.

Bui Thanh