What I would like to know about this discovery is: - why was this apiary and its valuable objects abondoned? was there a natural disaster or a war that caused the disruption? - is there bee DNA material that could used to determine if those Near East bees are related to any present day bee races? Waldemar ****************************************************** * Full guidelines for BEE-L posting are at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm * ******************************************************