#The Lovers of Valdaro

[circadianaa]

i love taking my normal pills

[typewriter-worries]

What will survive of us is love

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Anne Carson | A modern artist's recreation of prehistoric hand stencils found in caves | In Love With You, Kenneth Koch | The Lovers of Valdaro | War of the Foxes,  Richard Siken | The Kiss [Paolo and Francesca], Auguste Rodin | The Expatriates, Anne Sexton

[kkaisarion]

...what if it all burns down and you've forgiven me and i hold you close like the skeletons lovers who came before us 👉👈

[nofeelingisfinall]

love, always.

[west wind, mary oliver || the lovers of valdaro || in a week, hozier & karen cowley || leonard matlovich’s tombstone at the congressional cemetery in washington, dc. || everywhere, everything, noah kahan || memorial to a marriage, patricia cronin || cassandra clare]

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

The Lovers of Valdaro

Valdaro Lovers, are two 6,000-year-old skeletons discovered in a Neolithic tomb near Valdaro in Mantua, Italy, in 2007. Their name comes from the fact that they appear locked in an embrace. The burial dates to the Neolithic period, which lasted from 10,000 – 4,500 BCE.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Lovers of Valdaro, discovered by archaeologists at a tomb in San Giorgio near Mantua, Italy. The couple have been holding one another for 6,000 years.

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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

[fun-esta]

[boy--lilikoi]

ん？

Valdaro Lovers

꧁ here's where the story ends ꧂

The Lovers of Valdaro at the National Archaeological Museum of Mantua, Italy

[ethannku]

i’d rot with you too, if i could

tumblr post by @girlhorror​ / revenge by xxxtentacion / the lovers of valdaro / lazarus rises (amongst other things) by @icaruspendragon​ / mahmoud darwish / gravestone of james robert irwin and millie michaels irwin / wuthering heights by emily brontë

[a-whole-tempest-in-a-teacup]

Return to the earth with me, my love. Death cannot do us part.

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë | Bronze Age Couple | the Hasanlu Lovers | 'Strangeness and Charm' - Florence + the Machine | The Addams Family (1991) | tumblr post by @hopefulnerd25 | William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) | The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman | Enemies, a Love Story (1989) | 'In A Week' - Hozier | the Lovers of Valdaro | the Lovers of Modena | The Castle, Franz Kafka

[blackberryjambaby]

together in life, together in death

embracing skeletons of alepotryla / 'my blood is your blood', kevin atwater / 'in a week', hozier / the lovers of valdaro / the hasanlu lovers / kevin atwater / hozier / the lovers of modena / the lovers of cluj-napoca / boyflesher

[lycoris-radiata-dreams]

How even weeks after finishing the drama, I can’t get this reference out of my head.

[sonata-stigmata]

ego - m. roosevelt & mitski / thisbe kills herself on pyramus' corpse by jan van mieres (1679) / baucis and philemon by arthur rackham (1922) / queen of thrace, phyllis and the almond tree / phyllis and demophoon by john william waterhouse (1897) / oryu-yanagi by mia araujo (2012) / bound - pretty sick

[acheronist]

its just so interesting to meeeeeee because henry's authorial voice doesn't exist unless tom's dead remains are there keeping the wallet and journal safe, but tom's dead remains stay unknown unless henry's authorial voice is there keeping his identity kept behind a cipher. and they literally got divorced when they were in their twenties.

[fickes]

six millennia in love

[mera-chain-wain-sab-ujda]

oh. to do simple tasks of life with your significant other. grocery shopping. doing dishes. laundry. watching tv shows. cutting them a pomegranate. sharing an orange. awkwardly dancing, hand in hand. hugging each other. the tight hug. where you never want to let go. sleeping in silence, where you can hear each other’s heartbeats. there’s love in simplicity. especially in simplicity.