Editing Handshake (section)

==History==
[[File:Shalmaneser III greets Marduk-zakir-shumi, detail, front panel, Throne Dais of Shalmaneser III at the Iraq Museum.jpg|thumb|Assyrian king [[Shalmaneser III]] (right) shakes the hand of Babylonian king [[Marduk-zakir-shumi I]] (left), 9th century BCE]]
The handshake may have originated in [[prehistory]] as a demonstration of peaceful intent, since it shows that the hand holds no weapon.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-origin-of-the-handshake |title=The History of the Handshake |website=History.com |date=16 March 2020 }}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2024}} Another possibility is that it originated as a symbolic gesture of mutual commitment to an oath or promise: two hands clasping each other represents the sealing of a bond. One of the earliest known depictions of a handshake is an ancient Assyrian relief of the 9th century BC depicting the Assyrian king [[Shalmaneser III]] clasping the hand of the Babylonian king [[Marduk-zakir-shumi I]] to seal an alliance.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andrews|first=Evan|title=The History of the Handshake|url=https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-origin-of-the-handshake|access-date=18 July 2020|website=HISTORY|language=en}}</ref>[[File:ACMA 1333 Samian decree 2.JPG|thumb|[[Hera]] and [[Athena]] handshaking, late 5th century BC, [[Acropolis Museum]], Athens]]
Archaeological ruins and ancient texts show that handshaking was practiced in [[ancient Greece]] (where it was called [[dexiosis]]) as early as the 5th century BC. For example, a depiction of two soldiers joining hands can be found on part of a 5th-century BC funerary [[stele]] that is on display in Berlin's [[Pergamon Museum]] (stele SK1708)<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> and on other funerary steles, such as one from the 4th century BC that depicts Thraseas and his wife Euandria shaking hands.<ref>{{Cite book
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[[File:Nerva Aureus Concordia.png|thumb|Handshake depicted on a Roman coin, with the name of the goddess [[Concordia (mythology)|Concordia]] (AD 97)]]
Depictions of handshakes also appear in [[Archaic Greek]], [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscan]] and Roman funerary and non-funerary art.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Davies |first=Glenys |title=The Significance of the Handshake Motif in Classical Funerary Art |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |year=1985 |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=627–640 |doi=10.2307/504204 |jstor=504204 |s2cid=191645710 }}</ref> Muslim scholars have written that the custom of handshaking was introduced to them by the people of Yemen.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=28KCOnhdJHsC&pg=RA1-PT256|title=Riyad-us-Saliheen|last=IslamKotob|publisher=IslamKotob|language=en}}</ref>