Turmeric has been used for thousands of years as a medicinal preparation and a preservative and coloring agent in foods. Curcumin was isolated as the major yellow pigment in turmeric; chemically diferulomethane, and has a polyphenolic molecular structure similar to other plant pigments (eg.
The Odyssey by Homer Written 800 B.C.E. Context. NEARLY THREE THOUSAND YEARS after they were composed, the Iliad and theOdyssey remain two of the most celebrated and widely read stories ever told, yet next to nothing is known about their author.
  1827 It's estimated that Poe wrote his first full poem called O, Tempore! O, Mores! around 1825, but it was never published during his lifetime. He wrote bits and piec â¦ es of verse before that, but that is thought to be his first full writing. Edgar Allan Poe began writing in West Point, Virginia as an editor.