Scientists argue that “the act of kissing appears to have been practiced in several ancient cultures over several millennia”.
Researchers say the act of kissing appears to have been practiced in several ancient cultures over several millennia.
A clay model from Mesopotamia, dating from approximately 1800 BC, shows a couple kissing.
A study, published in the journal Science, points out that kissing was already part of people’s lives 4,500 years ago, in the Middle East. In the article, researchers Troels Pank Arbøll and Sophie Lund Rasmussen draw on a series of written sources from early Mesopotamian societies.
“In ancient Mesopotamia, which is the name of the first human cultures that existed between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in modern-day Iraq and Syria, people wrote in cuneiform script on clay tablets. Many thousands of these clay tablets have survived to this day and contain clear examples that kissing was considered part of romantic intimacy in ancient times, just as kissing could be part of friendships and family relationships,” says Arbøll, an expert in the history of medicine. in Mesopotamia, in a statement.
