Talk:Rosemary
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Objections to cite 36 for rosemary in Uses "Egyptians used ..."
I've just followed the link [1]https://www.shroud.com/pdfs/boiveng.pdf to read up on this, and I found that 36 does not prove or even indicate that Egyptians used rosemary for anything. The cited paper only mentions rosemary once, in a paragraph about something that supposedly Herodotus said, but with no quotation that would prove this. The author then goes on to instead quote a section from the Bible, John 19:39, which reads as follows:
Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus[5] by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds[6] in weight.
Source: https://www.bibleserver.com/LUT.ESV/Johannes19%2C39
So there is really no citation that actually mentions rosemary beyond doubt. I haven't checked Herodotus' Histories now, because I don't have a version available I could easily search, but using this citation to prove the point seems a stretch to me. Dr. Bernhard Schaefer (talk) 15:34, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Ping I agree, and have removed the statement (plus an unsupported statement about folk medical use). Peter coxhead (talk) 19:49, 6 November 2024 (UTC)