TY - BOOK AU - Belgiorno,Maria Rosaria TI - Behind Distillation: A Research Born After the Discovery in Cyprus of 2000 BC Alembics SN - 9789963244812 PY - 2017///. CY - Nicosia: PB - antonio de strobel, KW - Distillation KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Distillation apparatus KW - Mediterranean countries KW - medicinal herbs KW - distillation N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - The world of distillation has many fathers and mothers and an abundant progeny. The world of Medicine, Perfumery, Alchemy, and Spirits have claimed a leading role. Understanding anything about it becomes a basic need, and a decisive starting point. It is a good idea to begin with the facts before venturing in the farrago of hypotheses and interpretations. In a world divided and diversified as that of distilling the facts can come only from archaeology. Maria Rosaria Belgiorno is the archaeologist we owe the discovery and reconstruction of a device ER -