图片新闻【636】千年相拥

This handout picture received on 2 February shows a pair of 6,000-year-old skeletons found by Italian archaeologists in a dying embrace. The couple will not be separated, team leader Elena Menotti has told AFP.(AFP/Italian Cultural Ministry/File)

词汇：

handout n.分发的印刷品, 新闻稿
skeleton n.(动物之)骨架, 骨骼, 基干, 纲要, 万能钥匙
archaeologist n.考古学家
dying adj.垂死的
embrace vt.拥抱, 互相拥抱, 包含 n.拥抱
separate v.分开, 隔离, 分散, 分别

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Love forever: Italy's embracing skeletons to be left in peace

ROME (AFP) - A pair of 6,000-year-old skeletons found by Italian archaeologists in a dying embrace will not be separated, team leader Elena Menotti has told AFP.

"We will do everything possible to preserve the bodies in the exact position of their grave," she said Wednesday. "There's no question of breaking their embrace."

The skeletons were found last week during digging in an industrial zone near the northern city of Mantua and the find will be displayed at the city's archaeological museum.

While scientists are still puzzling over how the pair died and why they were buried in this way, Menotti said their embrace was "testimony to a great feeling of love that has transcended time.

"For regardless of why they were buried in each other's arms, there had to have been feelings between them."