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The interesting thing about these 5,000-year-old lovers is that they were found in Verona, the setting of Shakespeare’s famous love play, Romeo and Juliet.

Art historian Paul Koudounaris hunted down these jewel encrusted skeletons in secret Catholic vaults. Those are the remains of Catholic martyrs dug up from Roman catacombs. They were sent to churches across Europe to replace relics destroyed in Reformation. Some …