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Humans have linked emotions to the same body parts for 3,000 years

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Researchers catalogued words for body parts and emotions used by people who lived in Mesopotamia between 934 and 612 BCE .

They compared ancient ideas etched on clay tablets and other artifacts to commonly used modern-day links between emotions and body parts.

Neo-Assyrians associated positive emotions, such as happiness, with the liver.

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