Photo: Oldest Embracing Lovers Found in Turkey?

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The skeletons of a young man and a young woman found buried in each other's arms could be the oldest known embracing couple, Turkish archaeologists recently announced.

The lovers' cause of death is not yet known. They are believed to be part of an ancient culture that once spread across Mesopotamia in what is now Iraq.

Photograph courtesy Halil Tekin

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