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A lid at the opposite end from the bees’ entrance allowed the bee-keeper to grab the honeycomb
Israel is referred to repeatedly in the Bible — 17 times, in fact — as the “land of milk and honey,” but until 2005 archaeologists had discovered little firm evidence that beekeeping was ever practiced there. Many scholars, in fact, assumed “honey” referred to a nectar from dates or other fruits.
Then, three years ago in 2006, researchers found a 3,000-year-old apiary in the Iron Age city of Tel Rehov in the Jordan Valley, the oldest known commercial beekeeping facility in the world, suggesting that the word “honey” likely referred to the real thing. Now the same researchers have gotten an even bigger surprise: The bees that were kept in the hives were most likely from Turkey, hundreds of miles away.
Article https://www.bibleplaces.com/blog/2010/06/evidence-of-honeybees-in-ancient-israel/
Bees used these holes to enter and exit from the ancient clay hives at Tel Rehov, Israel.
“This is a very special discovery … because there is no evidence from before for bringing any kind of animals from such a distance, especially bees, which represent a quite complicated, sophisticated type of agriculture,” said archaeologist Amihai Mazar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lead author of a report published online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “This throws new light on the economy of the biblical period.” The findings “would imply an incredible amount of commodity trading of bees,” said bee expert Gene Kritsky of the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, editor of American Entomologist. The importation of Italian bees to the United States in the 1860s “was thought to be a big deal then,” he said, “but the Israelis may have been doing this as far back as the first millennium BC.”
Photos https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19013-biblical-bee-keepers-picked-the-best-bees/
Botanical name or scientific name: None, the chemical formula of honey is C6H12O6
Other common names: Nectar, Sap, Mel, Mele, Madhu, and Ambrosia
Popular types of honey: Wildflower honey, Alfalfa honey, Manuka honey, Clover honey, Acacia honey, Buckwheat honey, Creamed honey, and Eucalyptus honey.
Earliest recorded medicinal uses: 2600-2200 BC in the Egyptian Edwin Smith Papyrus describes using honey 500 times in 900 remedies. 2100 BC a clay tablet from the Euphrates Valley references honey as a drug and ointment. 380 BC Aristotle described honey as a salve for wounds and eye sores.
I could fill pages and pages with the uses for honey! To access the beneficial uses of honey the most important rule to follow is using unpasteurized raw true honey! 95% of what you find on the grocery store shelves is NOT true honey unless you shop at a natural or specialty shop type grocery store. The FDA does not require honey to be labeled if there is added sugar or corn syrup, it has to be added to the daily value nutritional facts but not listed on the ingredient list. You then end up with the chemicals from refining the sugar that are not required by the FDA to be listed. These chemicals include sulfur dioxide, phosphoric acid, calcium hydroxide, formic acid, sodium hypochlorite, caustic soda, and hydrofluoric acid. Along with chemicals used for the boiler water treatment, and the cooling water treatment. The amount of chemicals used in refining sugar is horrific!
Pasteurized honey makes no sense, it destroys almost all of the honey’s natural benefits. Raw honey is the earth’s oldest preservative, between its sugar content that prevents bacteria growth and its natural hydrogen peroxide that prevents any growth of microbes, it cannot go bad if pure unadulterated raw honey and is stored properly. The oldest edible honey ever found is thought to be a 5,500-year-old ceramic vessel from a female noblewoman’s tomb in Borjomi, Georgia. 3,500-year-old edible honey was found in King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt. Pasteurizing makes no sense!
Avoid Diabetics should monitor blood sugar while using honey. Infants under 1 year old. To date, worldwide there have been 35 instances of C.botulinum spores have been found in honey fed to infants.
Constituents include but are not limited to natural raw honey fructose and glucose accounting for most up to 90%. Other sugars include maltrose, sucrose, isomaltose turanose, nigerose, meli-biose, panose, maltotriose, and melezitose. Probiotic agents like fructooligosaccharides. Minerals like potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, sulphur, and trace amounts of iron, copper, zinc, and manganese. Vitamins C, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, folate, and niacin. There are approximately 200 different constituents or substances in raw honey.
Its potential health benefits include but are not limited to topical wound healing, antioxidants, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, soothing cough, gut support rich in probiotics, combats mycotoxins in the gut, improving brain function by controlling oxidative stress, allergy relief, treating eye diseases topically, balancing blood pressure, raises red and white blood cell count, antidepressant, anti-fungal, and anti-anxiety.