A general review of history of the origin, and formation and the art of manufacturing pharmaceutical ware, and also a long way of historical development of medieval pharmacy is presented in the article. The findings which have been discovered during archeological excavations in the countries of the Near East and Azerbaijan, including samples of the chemist’s ware made in the ancient time and during Middle Ages are described in the present paper. The given findings testify that already in the early Middle Ages in Azerbaijan there were drugstores and pharmaceutical factories and as a consequence that the medicine and pharmacy in these regions have ancient history. External similarity of the vessels found during archeological excavation in the countries of the Near East and Greece testifies to cultural and scientific cooperation in the Mediterranean-Caspian region.
