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The fascinating origins of marriage
How and when did we start tying the knot?
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To chart the history of marriage is to delve back nearly 4,000 years to Mesopotamia, when the first instances of wedlock uniting one man and one woman were recorded. But what exactly does the institution of marriage mean, and how has it evolved over the centuries?
Click through and find out how and when we began tying the knot.
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