Ancient Mesopotamia felt love in their livers and anger in their feet, revealed a recent analysis of one million words of the ancient Akkadian language.
Anger is experienced by modern humans in the upper body and hands, while Mesopotamia ns felt most ‘heated’, ‘enraged’ or ‘angry’ in their feetModern and Mesopotamia n people experience love in a rather similar way. In Mesopotamia , love is particularly associated with the liver, heart and knees
The details were revealed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers after studying the large body of texts, which is from 934-612 BC in the form of cuneiform scripts on clay tablets.“Even in ancient Mesopotamia, there was a rough understanding of anatomy, for example the importance of the heart, liver and lungs,” said Professor Saana Svärd of the University of Helsinki, an assyriologist who is leading the research project.
Cognitive neuroscientist Juha Lahnakoski, a visiting researcher at Aalto University, stated that if you compare the ancient Mesopotamian bodily map of happiness with modern bodily maps, it is largely similar, with the exception of a notable glow in the liver.Other contrasting results between ourselves and the ancients can be seen in emotions such as anger and love.
Svärd highlighted that it remains to be seen whether “we can say something in the future about what kind of emotional experiences are typical for humans in general and whether, for example, fear has always been felt in the same parts of the body. Also, we have to keep in mind that texts are texts and emotions are lived and experienced.”
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