Herbal Timeline

*Use this timeline in conjuntion with History of Herbs

35,000 – 32,000 BCE - Neanderthal Era - Archeological evidence of the Neanderthal’s use of herbs has been uncovered

3500 BCE - Shen-nung begins study of herbs (China)

3400 BCE - Alps Iceman dies (Ancient Art)

3000 BCE - Indus Valley Civilization begins (India)
Early Dynasty Period of Sumer (Mesopotamia)
Early Dynastic Period unites Upper and Lower Egypt (Egypt)
First medicinal reference to garlic, found in Sumer (Mesopotamia)

2100 BCE - Sumerians carve the oldest prescription yet uncovered (Mesopotamia)

1900 BCE - First Dynasty of Babylon (Mesopotamia)

1800 BCE - Vedic religion introduced into Indus region (India)

1700 BCE - Date of Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus (Egypt)

1500 BCE - Rig Veda written down from oral traditions (India)
Date of Ebers Papyrus, discovered near Luxor 1874 (Egypt)

1200 BCE - Greek culture solidifies (Greece) First medical school University of Taxila founded in Punjab (India)

c900 BCE - Assyrian Empire rises (Mesopotamia)

800s BCE - Hanging Gardens of Babylon constructed (Mesopotamia)

625 BCE - Neo Babylonian Empire rises (Mesopotamia)

538 BCE - Persian Empire rises (Mesopotamia)

510 BCE - Roman Republican Period begins (Rome)

500 BCE - Charaka writes Charaka Sunhita (India)

460 BCE - Hippocrates born, father of Humoral Theory (Greece)

400 BCE - Diseases of Women and On the Nature of Women, treatises containing gynecological information by Hippocrates (Greece)
Corpus Hippocriticum – Hippocrates (Greece)

372 BCE - Theophratus, father of botany, born (Greece)

340 BCE - Historia Planterium – Theophratus (Greece)
De Causis Plantarium – Theophratus (Greece)

250 BCE - Asoka converts to Buddhism (India)

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