when was cotton discovered
Answers.comÂ® is making the world better one answer at a time. Discovered Cotton Cotton is estimated to be about 7,000 years old, so no one knows who discovered cotton originally. It was grown, spun, and used in Pakistan and cotton clothing was worn in Egypt in 3,000 BC. The first discovery in the New World was made in 1492 when Christopher Columbus found it growing in the Bahamas.