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Land of milk and honey

COMPILED BY R. KRITHIKA

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Ancient beehives: At Tel Rehov.

Israel is said to be the “land of milk and honey”and archaeological evidence confirms that it was indeed overflowing with honey. Archaeologists have discovered pieces of honeycombs, beeswax and intact beehives that are around 3000 years old. So far, it was believed that the references to honey meant date and figs. According to Amihai Mazar of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, honey in ancient times had medicinal and religious uses apart from being food. Bees wax was used for moulds and tablets. The beehives uncovered at Rehov in northern Israel were made of straw and clay with a hole at one end and a lid on the other. The room in which the hives were found could have housed 100 such hives. “You can tell that this was an organised industry, part of an organised economy, in an ultra-organised city,” Mazar told AP.

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