History
Chinese, Indian and Egyptian 4500 BCAromatic substances played an important role in the medicinal practices of the Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Chinese and Indian civilisations but it is believed that the Egyptians were possibly the first and date back to 4500 BC.
It would seem from the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus and is an Egyptian Medical scroll that the Egyptians were the first people to discover the use of herbs, balsamic substances, perfumed oils, scented barks, resins, medicinal potions, liturgy, astrology, embalming etc.
The Papyrus of Ebers shows widespread use of aromatherapy in pharmacology and pathology.
On the papyrus Edwin Smith, formulations can be found for restoring youthfulness to ageing men too.
We learn that Egyptian doctors treated hayfever with a mixture of antimony, aloes, myrrh and honey.
The Egyptian priests also used a sophisticated method of extraction called enflleurage by which the odoriferous mololecules were absorbed.
Venus Tablet
Whereas, the earliest writings for astrology are from Babylon dating back to 1800 BC when the Venus tablets of Ammisaduga were written and in which 5 planets were recorded.
The Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa (Enuma Anu Enlil Tablet 63) refers to the record of astronomical observations of Venus, as preserved in numerous cuneiformtablets dating from the first millennium BCE.
It is believed that this astronomical record was first compiled during the reign of King Ammisaduqa (or Ammizaduga), the fourth ruler after Hammurabi.
Thus, the origins of this text should probably be dated to around the mid-seventeenth century BCE.
Regarded by literary and historical scholars as possibly the earliest known author and poet of either gender, Enheduanna served as the High Priestess during the third millennium BCE. She was appointed to the role by her father, King Sargon of Akkad. Her mother was Queen Tashlultum.
Enheduanna has left behind a corpus of literary works definitively ascribed to her that include many personal devotions to the goddess Inanna and a collection of hymns known as the "Sumerian Temple Hymns" that are regarded as one of the first attempts at a systematic theology. In addition, scholars such asHallo and Van Dijk suggest that certain texts that have not been ascribed to her may also be her works.
She was an astronomer known as the Priestess of the Moon Goddess and Lady of the Largest Heart.
She wrote the Exaltation of Inanna. Her writings and poems are referred to as the Shakespeare of Sumaria.
Disc of En Heduanna Venus Tablet of Amissaduqa
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