Archaeological dig in China reveals 4,200-year-old eternal embrace

Washington, March 27 (ANI): It's said that true love is eternal, and archaeologists have found an example of this adage in the form of a 4,200-year-old grave in China, in which a couple was found laying and hugging each other.

The ancient grave was found by the Chengdu Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in the Sanxing Village of Mimou Township, Qingbaijiang District.

The bones of the "oldest" couple are clearly visible.

Excavation work also discovered numerous exquisite stone vessels, porcelains, housing ruins as well as graves dating form China's ancient Shang Dynasty.

The Sanxingcun site, located in the sixth group of the Sanxing Village in Mimou Township, Qingbaijiang section of the Chengdu-Mianyang-Leshan inter-city railway line, covers an area of about 28,000 sqm, through which the Chengdu-Mianyang Highway runs.

In May 2004, the Chengdu Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated part of the site's western side.

Archaeologists believe that the Sanxingcun site was once a large ancient settlement in the Chengdu Plain in China's ancient Shang and Zhou dynasties.

There have always been settlers on this land over the past 4,000-plus years.

Plenty of porcelains and stone vessels were excavated from the Sanxingcun site, such as flat-bottomed pots and jars with high handles that people in the period of the Sanxingdui culture used to hold items and food. (ANI)