The result stands for the modern trade and does not reach the ancient question. No securely dated archaeological myrrh from any trade period has been analysed the same way.
What would resolve this Genetic or chemical analysis of securely dated archaeological myrrh residue from a known trade-period context, compared against the modern reference barcodes.
OpenArchaeobotany; archaeological scienceChanghong Cao, Wenting Zhong, Feng Gao, Ying Zhang, Zhiguo Ma, Hui Cao and Menghua Wu, Deciphering Insights into Commercial Myrrh Species Authenticity from the psbA-trnH Genetic Region