Thu 8 Feb 2007
Singapore’s main English broadsheet used this picture on the front page, and it made such an impression that I had to post it here. Bones of a man and woman embracing each other, dated between 5000 and 6000 years old. I couldn’t take my eyes away.
The first photo has different lighting from the one used in the newspaper, and the second one has the same lighting but is a closeup. Both are from Reuters.
You can read more in this Associated Press wire story.
February 9th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I was struck by the picture too when I saw it on the cover of yesterday’s Straits Times.
February 9th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
i think the researchers would have been able to tell the gender, and it is pretty certain that they were heterosexual (at least at time of dying), but would it not have been great if the 2 skeletons happen to of the same sex?
February 11th, 2007 at 2:35 am
*hauntingly ethereal*