{"id":265898,"date":"2024-12-04T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/04\/mesopotamians-felt-happiness-in-their-liver-and-anger-in-their-thighs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:15","slug":"mesopotamians-felt-happiness-in-their-liver-and-anger-in-their-thighs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/04\/mesopotamians-felt-happiness-in-their-liver-and-anger-in-their-thighs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesopotamians felt happiness in their liver and anger in their thighs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/04142750\/SEI_231801618.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2458955\" data-caption=\"Modern and Mesopotamian people embody emotions in different ways\" data-credit=\"Modern\/PNAS: Lauri Nummenmaa et al. 2014, Mesopotamian: Juha Lahnakoski 2024\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Modern and Mesopotamian people embody emotions in different ways<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Modern\/PNAS: Lauri Nummenmaa et al. 2014, Mesopotamian: Juha Lahnakoski 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The inhabitants of Mesopotamia must have known grief, fear, love and awe \u2013 but they didn\u2019t necessarily think about them in the same way we do. An analysis of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2454631-ancient-mesopotamian-clay-seals-offer-clues-to-the-origin-of-writing\/\">cuneiform texts<\/a> shows that these ancient people felt disgust in their shins, suffering in their armpits and sexual arousal in their ankles. The work reveals the important hold that culture and knowledge have over our understanding of our own feelings.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2458952-mesopotamians-felt-happiness-in-their-liver-and-anger-in-their-thighs\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Modern and Mesopotamian people embody emotions in different ways Modern\/PNAS: Lauri Nummenmaa et al. 2014, Mesopotamian: Juha Lahnakoski 2024 The inhabitants of Mesopotamia must<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}