A new analysis of the Lovers of Modena — a pair of 1,600-year-old skeletons found buried with their hands clasped together — reveals the pair as being male, in a discovery unique to archaeology.
He was somewhere between the age of 17 and 25 when he died, apparently of natural causes. But for reasons that are unclear, this warrior’s body was speared and clubbed prior to burial, in what is now a fascinating Iron Age mystery. A distinct possibility is that it was done…