Even in death, they are not alone.
The remains of an embracing man and woman were discovered, as seen in a photo released by the Greek Culture Ministry. A man and woman in their 20s were found last year buried in a 6,000-year-old grave in Diros, southern Greece, but the photo was just released this year on Feb. 13, according to the Associate Press.
Double burials were not uncommon, and this discovery makes this 'til-death-they-did-not-part' burial the oldest double burial uncovered in Greece.
Anastassia Papathanassiou, senior member of the excavation team, told the AP that DNA testing was just done this week to determine the sex of the skeletons. Papathanassiou added that the couple most likely died in each other's arms in an important prehistoric site near Alepotrypa Cave.
How they died is unknown, as is their relation to each other, but Papathanassiou told the AP that further DNA testing should yield some answers.
