Editing Dill (section)

== History ==
Dill has been found in the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh [[Amenhotep II]], dating to around 1400&nbsp;BC.<ref name="pickersgill">{{cite book |editor1-last=Prance |editor1-first=Ghillean |editor2-last=Nesbitt |editor2-first=Mark |last1=Pickersgill |first1=Barbara |author-link=Barbara Pickersgill |date=2005 |title=The Cultural History of Plants |publisher=Routledge |page=163 |isbn=0415927463}}</ref> It was also later found in the Greek city of [[Samos]], around the 7th century BC, and mentioned in the writings of [[Theophrastus]] (371–287&nbsp;BC).<ref name="pickersgill"/> In [[Greek mythology]], the dill was originally a young man named [[Anethus]] who was transformed into the plant.<ref>{{cite book | title = Metamorphosis in Greek Myths | location = Oxford, New York, Toronto | first = Paul M. C. | last = Forbes Irving | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]], [[Clarendon Press]] | date = 1990 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=URvXAAAAMAAJ | isbn = 0-19-814730-9 | page = 280}}</ref>