First Written Record of a Headache
One of the earliest written references to headache dates back to a Mesopotamian poem from 4000 to 3000 BCE:
Headache roameth over the desert, blowing like the wind,
Flashing like lightning, it is loosed above and below;
It cutteth off like a reed him who feareth not his god…
This man it hath struck and
Like one with heart disease he staggereth,
Like one bereft of reason he is broken…
Three Sumerian statuettes of worshipers.
