Ancient Mesopotamian texts revealed that romantic kisses have been happening for 4,500 years in the ancient Middle East – not just 3,500 years ago, as a Bronze Age manuscript from South Asia had previously signaled, researchers claim.
on Thursday.
Danish professors Troels Pank Arbøll and Sophie Lund Rasmussen found kissing in relation to sex, family and friendship in ancient Mesopotamia – now modern modern-day Iraq and Syria – was an ordinary part of everyday life. These 1800 BCE texts show that society tried to regulate kissing activities between unwed people or adulterers. One text shows how a"married woman was almost led astray by a kiss from another man." The second has an unmarried woman"swearing to avoid kissing" and having"sexual relations with a specific man."
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