Athar Alrafedain

Abstract

Axis search is a plant Myrtle, one of the oilseed aromatic plant, old even at the present time, one of the plants that were planted all over the ancient Near East and Mediterranean and Middle East regions, and called by different names, which usually grows in wet areas, and plant myrtle evergreen shrub, aromatic scent oasis
Myrtle, had been mentioned in the Sumerian and Akkadian Cuneiform Texts, especially, the Lexical, Economic and Literary Texts, from different eras and more than a label Sumerian, however, in texts, Akkadian Word (Œaman asi) a label Arab itself, moreover the Ancient Iraqis knew the myrtle oil extraction, and they used it in medicine, religious beliefs, social purposes and for torch and decorate spaces in homes, gardens and other some of which are still known and used to this day.