New research, published in the journal Science, revealed that the practice of kiss already existed 4.5 thousand years in the Middle East, which is about a millennium earlier than previously believed.
Previously, the most accepted hypothesis was that the kiss Human labial involvement originated in a specific geographic location in South Asia, dating back to around 3,500 years ago.
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Current research reveals the earliest history of kissing and its origins in the Middle East, questioning the previous narrative about its spread and the possible implications in the spread of the herpes simplex virus 1.
This surprising discovery was made by researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Oxford in England. They conducted an investigation based on written sources from early Mesopotamian societies, revealing that kissing was a practice that had existed in this region for millennia.
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Troels Pank Arboll, an expert on the history of medicine in Mesopotamia and co-author of the study, highlighted that the Mesopotamian civilization, located between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the current territory of Iraq and Syria, it was one of the first human cultures to record this practice.
According to Arboll, the ancient records of the place, inscribed on clay tablets with cuneiform writing, show the presence of the kiss as an integral part of human relations at that time.
He highlights that many of these ancient clay tablets have survived to this day, and in them we can find clear evidence of that the kiss played a role both in romantic intimidation and in friendship and family relationships in ancient societies of the Mesopotamia.
As highlighted by Arboll, the kiss should not be seen as an exclusive costume that originated in a single region and spread from there. Instead, it appears to have been a practice present in several ancient cultures, not just Mesopotamia, over many millennia.
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