Who kissed first? Archeology has an answer.
It's a love story: In the spring of 2008, long before producing proof of humanity's first recorded kiss, Sophie Lund Rasmussen and Troels Pank Arboll locked lips for their first goodnight kiss. . They met a week earlier in a pub near the University of Copenhagen, where they were both students. “I had asked my cousin if he knew any cool single people with long hair and a long beard,” Dr. Rasmussen said. "And he said, 'Sure, I'll introduce you to one.' »
Dr. Arboll, in turn, was looking for a partner who shared his interest in Assyriology, the study of Mesopotamian languages and the sources written there. “Few people know what an Assyriologist actually does,” he told her.
“Yes,” said Dr. Rasmussen, who had followed some of the same courses.
Dr. Arboll, now a professor of Assyriology at the university, said: "When I heard that, I knew she was a keeper."
Three years later, they got married. Dr Rasmussen is now an ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford and Aalborg University in Denmark.
One evening over dinner in 2022, the couple discussed — as scientists in love do — a new genetic study that linked modern variants of herpes to mouth-to-mouth kissing in the Bronze Age , around 3300 BC. to 1200 BC In the journal's supplementary materials, a brief history of kissing identified South Asia as the place of origin and traced the first literary bus back to 1500 BC, when Sanskrit Vedic manuscripts were transcribed at from oral history.
The Cambridge University researcher suggested that this custom - a precursor to kissing on the lips which involved rubbing and pressing noses against each other - turned into hardcore kissing. She noted that in 300 B.C. - around the time the Indian sex manual, the Kama Sutra, was published - kissing had spread across the Mediterranean with the return of Alexander the Great's troops from northern India.
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It's a love story: In the spring of 2008, long before producing proof of humanity's first recorded kiss, Sophie Lund Rasmussen and Troels Pank Arboll locked lips for their first goodnight kiss. . They met a week earlier in a pub near the University of Copenhagen, where they were both students. “I had asked my cousin if he knew any cool single people with long hair and a long beard,” Dr. Rasmussen said. "And he said, 'Sure, I'll introduce you to one.' »
Dr. Arboll, in turn, was looking for a partner who shared his interest in Assyriology, the study of Mesopotamian languages and the sources written there. “Few people know what an Assyriologist actually does,” he told her.
“Yes,” said Dr. Rasmussen, who had followed some of the same courses.
Dr. Arboll, now a professor of Assyriology at the university, said: "When I heard that, I knew she was a keeper."
Three years later, they got married. Dr Rasmussen is now an ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford and Aalborg University in Denmark.
One evening over dinner in 2022, the couple discussed — as scientists in love do — a new genetic study that linked modern variants of herpes to mouth-to-mouth kissing in the Bronze Age , around 3300 BC. to 1200 BC In the journal's supplementary materials, a brief history of kissing identified South Asia as the place of origin and traced the first literary bus back to 1500 BC, when Sanskrit Vedic manuscripts were transcribed at from oral history.
The Cambridge University researcher suggested that this custom - a precursor to kissing on the lips which involved rubbing and pressing noses against each other - turned into hardcore kissing. She noted that in 300 B.C. - around the time the Indian sex manual, the Kama Sutra, was published - kissing had spread across the Mediterranean with the return of Alexander the Great's troops from northern India.
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