By David Derbyshire

For more than four thousand years since their violent deaths they have lain together - a mother, father and their two boys. They are, say archaeologists, the earliest known example of the nuclear family, carefully buried side by side, perhaps by grieving relatives or friends.

With the children facing their parents, the illustration, top right, shows how the boys aged eight and four were buried with their mother and father

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