Ancient Egyptian herbal wines

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 7361-7366

  McGovern, Patrick E ^a   Mirzoian, Armen ^b   Hall, Gretchen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient medicine; Biomolecular archaeology; Herbs; Middle east; Wine

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; NATURAL PRODUCT; RESIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENT; GRAPE; HERB; HERBAL WINE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WINE; ARCHEOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; HEAT; HISTORY; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

VITACEAE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; EGYPT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WINE;

EID: 66149144361     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811578106     Document Type: Article

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