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The oldest recorded evidence of kissing was attributed to the Vedas, a group of Indian scriptural texts that date back to around 1500 BC .
Thousands of clay tablets from Mesopotamia survive to the present; their references to kissing shed light on romantic intimacy in the ancient world.
There is likely much about kissing's role and significance in ancient cultures that is yet to be discovered.
Romantic kissing evolved in primates as a way to evaluate fitness in a potential mate, researchers say.
Kissing isn’t all sociability, fun and pleasure, but it may have been common in ancient Mesopotamia .
Even today , many cultures shun romantic kissing, according to a recent study.
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