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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor is a great overview of chemical warfare in antiquity.
The introduction is available on her Stanford faculty page. Mayor shows that people were using chemical warfare as early as the Bronze Age.
There is in fact earlier evidence for ancient biological warfare: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World. It's a terrible book, mostly because Mayor doesn't (in my opinion) have a clue what she's doing with her evidence (she's a "folkloreist," not an historian), but there is some impressive evidence she uses, if uses badly.