handshake

People have used body language to communicate since time immemorial. Our early relatives expressed themselves through gestures, facial expressions, body movements, and sounds. Later on, the sounds turned into spoken language and, much later after that, into written words. Nonetheless,...

The first nearly-universal way of greeting someone, portrayed for the first time in the arts of ancient Greece, has now been suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic after thousands of years of use.

Out of all the gestures of greeting used until recently around the globe, the handshake is the most widely used. The first nearly-universal way of greeting someone, which was first portrayed in the arts of ancient Greece, has been...