Egypt
- Online: The Wine Jars Speak: A Text Study
Uppsala Universitet Wahlberg, Eva-Lena (Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History) Title: The Wine Jars Speak: A text study The Wine Jars Speak: A text...
- Origins Of Shedeh
http://tinyurl.com/daddz (Science Direct) The Journal of Archaeological Science 33( issue 1) January 2006 features one article on ancient Egypt entitled The origin of the ancient Egyptian drink Shedeh revealed using LC/MS/MS (pages 98-101) by Maria Rosa...
- The Toast Of Tutankhamen
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1639503,00.html The identification of red wine in the tomb of Tutankhamun really gripped the media's imagination, and stories have still been trickling through about it, all repeating the same...
- Tutankhamen And Red Wine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4379286.stm"King Tutankhamun was a red wine drinker, according to scientists who have been studying residue left in wine pitchers in the ancient pharaoh's tomb. Wine was a luxury drink in ancient Egypt and bottles...
- Chemical Analysis Of Wine In Tomb Of Tuthankhamun
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050326001121.htm "Spanish scientists have developed the first technique that can determine the color of wine used in ancient jars. They analyzed residues from a jar found in the tomb of King Tut and found that...
Egypt
More on white wine in tomb of Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/nq3p9 (usatoday.com)
The USA Today website is featuring an article fromthe latest edition of the Journal of Archaeological Science (volume 33, issue 8): "King Tut's most elaborate grave goods are on a nationwide tour, currently at Chicago's Field Museum until next year. Not on the tour are 26 two-handle wine amphorae found inside the tomb by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. Carter found 12 of them intact but with their seals broken. Like any good wine cellar's contents, each one bore information about the wine it contained, including name, year, vineyard and vintner. But not the wine's color. Today the containers are kept at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The Spanish study authors examined the amphora and report that six more contain dried remnants of wine. With museum permission, they subjected residue samples to an intensive chemical analysis, ("liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry in tandem mode" for any lab aficionados) looking for two markers of red wine, tartaric acid and syringic acid.
Of the six jars, five contained white wine, the researchers conclude."
The Spanish study authors examined the amphora and report that six more contain dried remnants of wine. With museum permission, they subjected residue samples to an intensive chemical analysis, ("liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry in tandem mode" for any lab aficionados) looking for two markers of red wine, tartaric acid and syringic acid.
Of the six jars, five contained white wine, the researchers conclude."
See the above article for more details.
The abstract for the paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science itself can be found at:
The abstract for the paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science itself can be found at:
http://tinyurl.com/ommqo (sciencedirect.com)
Full contents listing for all issues can be found at:
http://tinyurl.com/933hs
- Online: The Wine Jars Speak: A Text Study
Uppsala Universitet Wahlberg, Eva-Lena (Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History) Title: The Wine Jars Speak: A text study The Wine Jars Speak: A text...
- Origins Of Shedeh
http://tinyurl.com/daddz (Science Direct) The Journal of Archaeological Science 33( issue 1) January 2006 features one article on ancient Egypt entitled The origin of the ancient Egyptian drink Shedeh revealed using LC/MS/MS (pages 98-101) by Maria Rosa...
- The Toast Of Tutankhamen
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1639503,00.html The identification of red wine in the tomb of Tutankhamun really gripped the media's imagination, and stories have still been trickling through about it, all repeating the same...
- Tutankhamen And Red Wine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4379286.stm"King Tutankhamun was a red wine drinker, according to scientists who have been studying residue left in wine pitchers in the ancient pharaoh's tomb. Wine was a luxury drink in ancient Egypt and bottles...
- Chemical Analysis Of Wine In Tomb Of Tuthankhamun
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050326001121.htm "Spanish scientists have developed the first technique that can determine the color of wine used in ancient jars. They analyzed residues from a jar found in the tomb of King Tut and found that...