The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life | Smithsonian
2013年8月22日 · Modern archeologists, excavating ancient Egyptian tombs, have often found something unexpected amongst the tombs’ artifacts: pots of honey, thousands of years old, and yet still preserved....
Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old pots of honey that are …
And while we might expect any ancient food to decompose past the point of recognition, archaeologists have actually uncovered 3,000-year-old pots of honey that were, remarkably, intact — and still edible. Honey’s extraordinary shelf life is the result of several factors.
3,500-year-old honeypot is the oldest direct evidence for honey ...
2021年4月15日 · Honey is humankind's oldest sweetener—and for thousands of years it was also the only one. Indirect clues about the significance of bees and bee products are provided by prehistoric petroglyphs...
3500 year-old honeypot: Oldest direct evidence for honey collecting …
2021年4月16日 · Honey is humankind’s oldest sweetener – and for thousands of years it was also the only one. Indirect clues about the significance of bees and bee products are provided by prehistoric petroglyphs on various continents, created between 8,000 and 40,000 years ago. Ancient Egyptian reliefs indicate the practice of beekeeping as early as 2600 year BCE.
Archaeologists Discover Oldest Direct Evidence for Honey …
2021年5月13日 · Archaeologists at Goethe University in cooperation with chemists at the University of Bristol have now produced the oldest direct evidence of honey collecting of in Africa. They used chemical food residues in potsherds found in Nigeria. Honey is humankind’s oldest sweetener – and for thousands of years it was also the only one.
Ancient pottery reveals the first evidence for honey hunting in ...
2021年4月14日 · A team of scientists has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from prehistoric West Africa, dating back some 3,500 years ago.
Ancient Pottery Reveals First Evidence of Prehistoric Honey Hunting …
2021年4月14日 · A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from prehistoric West Africa, dating back some 3,500 years ago.
Honey-Collecting In Prehistoric West Africa From 3500 ... - Ancient …
2021年4月14日 · A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from prehistoric West Africa, dating back some 3,500 years ago. Honeybees are an iconic species, being the world’s most important pollinator of food crops.
Honey-collecting in prehistoric West Africa from 3500 years ago - Nature
2021年4月14日 · Honey and other bee products were likely a sought-after foodstuff for much of human history, with direct chemical evidence for beeswax identified in prehistoric ceramic vessels from Europe, the...
The World's Oldest Jar Of Honey Is From 3500 BC - Tasting Table
2023年3月3日 · For much of the last century, historians believed that Egypt could lay claim to the oldest known jars of honey. This is not the case anymore, as more recent discoveries have found trace remnants...
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