Timeline for henna use on women's hands for celebration

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: OK....updating what I've found for henna history, it keeps getting : filled in: : This is a list of countries where women traditionally used henna to : beautify their hands for celebrations and luck, during some period : between 7000 BCE and 1900 AD. These dates are approximate, but are : supported by litereary or artifact evidence, direct or indirect. : Henna use may greatly predate earliest artifact evidence of henna : use..... also there may be other uses of henna that predate women's : celebrational use. : Turkey 4000 BCE to present (very compelling evidence of use as early : as 7000 BCE) : Syria 3000 BCE to present : Israel 2100 BCE to present : Palestine 2100 BCE to present : Jordan 2100 BCE through Ottoman Empire : Lebanon 2100 BCE through Ottoman Empire : Crete 2000 BCE to 900 BCE, and when under Moorish influence : Cyprus 2000 BCE to present, when under Moorish influence : Greece 1700 BCE to 1400 BCE, occasionally under Moorish or Turkish : inluence : Libya 1700 BCE to present : Tunisia 1200 BCE to present : Egypt 1500 BCE to present : Iraq 1300 BCE to present (possibly as early as 2500 BCE) : Iran 1300 BCE to present (possibly as early as 2500 BCE) : Morocco 1200 BCE to present : Western Sahara 1200 BCE to present : Algeria 1200 BCE to present : Mali 1200 BCE to present : Sudan 1200 BCE to present : Yemen 1200 BCE to present : United Arab Emirits 1200 BCE to present (or earlier) : Kuwait 1200 BCE to present : Turkistan 800 AD to present : Uzbekistan 800 AD to present : Oman 300 BCE to present : Italy 100 BCE, and occasionally through Moorish influence : Afghanistan 100 AD to present (probable use much earlier, perhaps to : 1200 BCE) : Pakistan 100 AD to present (probable use much earlier, perhaps to 1200 : BCE) : India 100 AD to present (probable use much earlier, perhaps to 1200 : BCE) : Nepal 600 AD to present (probable use much earlier) : Tibet 900 to 1300 AD : Sri Lanka 700 AD to present (probable use much earlier) : Burma 800 Ad to present : Thailand 800 AD to present : Ethiopia 800 AD both Muslim and Christian communities : Nigeria 800 AD to present : Mali 800 AD to present : Armenia 900 AD to present, both Muslim and Christian communities : Azerbaijan 900 AD to present : Sicily 1000-1200 AD : Spain 900 AD to 1560 AD : Portugal 900 to 1550 AD : China occasionally 1000 AD to present : Bosnia during Ottoman Empire and under Moorish influence : Malaysia 1200 AD to present, Muslim and Hindu population : Indonesia 1200 AD to present, Muslim and Hindu population : South Africa 1800 to present, Indian and Muslim population : Gypsy populations (dispersed) used henna when in Islamic or Hindu : countries 1100 AD to present

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