Se ha encontrado una tumba de 5.000 años de antigüedad que contiene una antigua “pareja de Romeo y Julieta” enterrada cerca de la tumba de dos caballos que tiraban de un “carro” de la Edad del Bronce hacia el más allá.

Los amantes prehistóricos, desenterrados en la región de Karaganda en Kazajstán, yacen de costado uno cerca del otro, el hombre armado con un carcaj de flechas y una daga de metal.

Su pareja llevaba joyas, incluidas pulseras verdes de piedras semipreciosas.

La imagen cercana de un carro tirado por dos caballos enjaezados, que se cree que fue sacrificado para el entierro, era también la tumba de otra pareja similar, dicen los arqueólogos.

Se ha encontrado una tumba de 5.000 años de antigüedad que contiene una antigua “pareja de Romeo y Julieta” (en la foto) enterrada cerca de la tumba de dos caballos que tiraban de un “carro” de la Edad del Bronce hacia el más allá.

La imagen cercana de un carro tirado por dos caballos enjaezados, que se cree que fue sacrificado para el entierro, era también la tumba de otra pareja similar, dicen los arqueólogos.

Los amantes prehistóricos, desenterrados en la región de Karaganda en Kazajstán, yacen de costado uno cerca del otro, el hombre armado con un carcaj de flechas y una daga de metal.

Creen que los huesos masculinos pueden haber pertenecido a un “auriga” de élite de la Edad del Bronce.

This grave, encircled by standing stones, was plundered in ancient times but disturbed bones of the pair remained – even though they are not shown in the pictures.

Despite this, the remarkable image of the horses heaving the chariot-grave into the afterlife are intact, as is the adjacent Romeo and Juliet couple.

Archeologist Dr Igor Kukushkin – in charge of the excavation – said there are unanswered questions about whether the Romeo and Juliet couples were together in their life times, in which case it was likely one made the ultimate sacrifice took their own life or was 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁ed to be buried with the other.

But it could be that a man and woman who died around the same time were chosen to be lovers after death, he said.

The remarkable image of the horses heaving the chariot-grave into the afterlife are intact, as is the adjacent Romeo and Juliet couple.

The horses were laid to rest back to back, but harnessed and in a ‘working position’ clearly intending to show them as pulling the chariot, say archeologists

‘Such coupled burials are not a rarity in our area, but the question of how the second person joined the deceased is still very much in the air,’ he said.

‘Was the woman – or the man – 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁ed to make sure they “followed” their other half?

‘Was this man and woman a husband and wife? Or was the couple made of a man and a woman who were not related, but died around the same time?

‘Our initial research on these skeletons showed no visible harm done to the people, but more detailed work should help clarify the cause of their deaths.’

He stressed: ‘We can be pretty certain that both horses were 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁ed…. The horses lie on their sides, back to back.

‘This is a rare position which is very similar – almost identical – to famous rock drawings of chariots.’

Archeologist Viktor Novozhenov, from Karaganda State University, said: ‘The position of the horses and of the stone burial box clearly show a burial made in a shape of a chariot.’

Archeologist Dr Igor Kukushkin – in charge of the excavation – said there are unanswered questions about whether the Romeo and Juliet couples were together in their life times

Discovery: The horses wore ‘psalia’ made of horn – a ‘rare fund ‘ – used for attaching the reins

The burials are around 5,000 years old, he said.

‘Next to the chariot the archeologists found a (separate) burial of ‘Romeo and Juliet’…

‘The man was buried with a quiver set and a metal dagger, and a woman’s last costume had bracelets made of semiprecious stone.’

She also wore a ‘bronze and semiprecious stone necklace and pendants’.

The horses were laid to rest back to back, but harnessed and in a ‘working position’ clearly intending to show them as pulling the chariot, say archeologists.

Stone and bronze spearheads were also found in the graves in rhe Karaganda region of Kazakhstan

They wore ‘psalia’ made of horn – a ‘rare fund ‘ – used for attaching the reins.

“Esta psalia se coloca a ambos lados de las cabezas de los caballos en su posición de trabajo, unidas entre ellos y un arnés mediante cinturones de cuero”, dijo.

“Las grapas de bronce conservadas deben haber reforzado el cuero y formar parte de un trozo”.

Dijo: “Un hallazgo tan raro de detalles tan importantes de los arneses de un carro in situ en su posición inicial, sin ser molestado por los ladrones de tumbas durante cinco mil años, es una gran suerte para los investigadores”.

En las tumbas también se encontraron puntas de lanza de piedra y bronce. Los arqueólogos también descubrieron una punta de flecha de piedra y un colgante chapado en oro junto con cerámica.