Discovered in 1972, the “Hasanlu Lovers” perished around 800 B.C., their final moments seemingly locked in an eternal embrace or kiss, preserved for 2800 years.
r/allView all comments
Dude imagine how fucking numb that skeleton arm is feeling, mad respect
If she she/he lays correctly it won’t go numb. She’s They gotta be laying on the V shape of your arm/body. 40% of the weight on your chest. 60% of the weight on the shoulder/bicep. 0% of the weight on the main blood vain = blood flow at 100% efficiency
Edit: I believe this method could work with either sex. Completely your preference.
DNA evidence suggests both skeletons are male
Based on the fact that they were found buried in a bin, with no signs of injury to the bones leading researchers to think they asphyxiated, I'm wondering if they were buried alive together as punishment for breaking taboo.
Another likely explanation is they hid in a storage space (or hidey hole built to escape repeated invasions?) and were trapped when a roof collapsed on the lid.
That’s a bit of an extreme jump to make that they could have been buried alive for possibly being gay men. This was in 800 B.C, we have no idea what their cultures response was to same sex relationships. As for modern history, same sex relationships being taboo is a pretty recent idea that was heavily spread and enforced by the colonisation of the Catholic Church via the Romans and then later by the colonisation of Christianity via the British Empire.
There are many civilisations prior and/or outside of then that suggest same sex relations were common practice, even some that suggests it was originally common practice amongst early Romans, before they went ape shit with Catholicism.