Excavators find honey of a discovery: Israeli site yields oldest known example of beekeeping.The Bible refers to ancient Israel as the "land flowing with milk and honey land flowing with milk and honey promised by God to afflicted Israelites. [O.T.: Exodus 3:8; 13:5] See : Luxury ," so it's fitting that one of its towns milked honey for all it was worth. Scientists have unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia. Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. the remains of a beekeeping beekeeping or apiculture Care and manipulation of honeybees to enable them to produce and store more honey than they need so that the excess can be collected. Beekeeping is one of the oldest forms of animal husbandry. operation at a nearly 3,000-year-old Israeli site, dating to the time of King David and King Solomon. Excavations in northern Israel at a huge earthen earth·en adj. 1. Made of earth or clay: an earthen fortification; an earthen pot. 2. Earthly; worldly. mound called Tel Rehov revealed the Iron Age settlement. From 2005 to 2007, workers there uncovered the oldest known remnants of human-made beehives, excavation director Amihai Mazar and colleagues report in the September Antiquity. No evidence of beekeeping has emerged at any other archaeological sites in the region. "The discovery of an industrial apiary at Tel Rehov constitutes a unique and extraordinary discovery that revolutionizes our knowledge of this economic endeavor, particularly in ancient Israel," says Mazar, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Independent university in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1925. The foremost university in Israel, it attracts many Jewish students from abroad; Arab students also attend. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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