Lip kissing was documented in the ancient Middle East from at least 2500BCE. Read more at straitstimes.com.
India may have given the world the Kama Sutra, an ancient Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfilment in life, but it is no longer thought to be the birthplace of humanity’s earliest recorded kiss.
There is also evidence to suggest that kissing may have helped spread orally transmitted diseases, said scientists in an article published on Thursday in the journal Science.Previous studies had pointed to the earliest evidence of kissing coming from modern-day India in around 1500BCE.However, romantic-sexual kissing was not found to be culturally universal. That said, it must have been known in most ancient cultures, the researchers said.“Two texts from 1800BCE are especially revealing.
And since they are the closest living relatives to humans, scientists say their practices may hint at the presence and evolution of this behaviour in our human ancestors. A disease called bu’shanu was described in ancient medical texts. Researchers say it might have reflected HSV-1 as well as other modern diseases, such as diphtheria.
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