Archeologists find bodies of Romeo and Juliet

Archeologists find bodies of Romeo and Juliet

Romanian archeologists found the bodies of a man and a woman buried clasped hands in a stunning romantic discovery was called "Romeo and Juliet" Romanian ", during the digging was in the inner courtyard of a former Dominican monasteries of Romania.

According to the daily mail, experts from the British Institute of Archaeology in the city of Cluj Napoca Romanian already discovered a few bodies in a place thought it was in the former cemetery of the monastery, but the discovery of two young men buried clasped hands was a real surprise, because double burials were extremely rare in this period.

And the daily mail quoted Adrian Rousseau, who led the research, was quoted as saying that the puzzle is rare for burials at the time, we can see that the young man suffered a serious injury which resulted in a broken thigh died because of him, we believe that the infection is being beaten by a person very harsh. "

Russo said that because of the death of the young woman at the same time as is evident with the prospects that their health was good, we speculate that they probably died of grief over the loss of her partner, adding that suicide was a sin in the middle ages, so it is unlikely that women have killed itself, and if it had done so not to be buried together in a sacred place.

Rousseau estimated that the bodies buried between 1450 and 1550.

Archaeologists also found in the same cemetery the body of a child but is not believed to be linked to the other two bodies.