"Lovers of Modena - Romeo and Juliet? Nah! Romeo and Pulio." Topic

"A new study has discovered that the famed Lovers of Modena are two men, not a man and woman as previously the believed. The couple found buried hand-in-hand in a 6th century necropolis in Modena, northern Italy, in 2009 were initially thought to be male and female based on osteological examination of the bones, but the remains were not in very poor condition and that initial assessment has now been conclusively shown to be erroneous by a new technique analyzing the peptides on tooth enamel.

The site in a suburb of Modena (Roman Mutina) was not originally a cemetery. The earliest layer has remains of Roman buildings, most notably a calcara, workshops where limestone was fired in kilns to produce lime for mortar. Ten feet above that the necropolis begins with 11 burials. A third layer, separated from the second by a thick alluvial silt deposit believed to have been caused by a flood of the Tiepido river, contains seven graves but they were all empty, believed to have been dug right before a major flood in 589 and never occupied…."

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