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Friday, February 13, 2015

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Art history’s greatest kisses

Ain Sahkri Lovers, (c 10,000 BC)
Found in a cave near Bethlehem and now in the collection of the British Museum, this sculpture was made at the dawn of the age of agriculture – and is the oldest known depiction of sexual love. Though the couple have no faces, and though their genders cannot be determined, they are clearly kissing: two lovers, hewn from a single stone and fused for millennia. (Bible Land Pictures/Alamy)
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