"When I worked at the Weslaco lab, Bill Wilson told me that the ancient
Egyptians moved their bees up and down the Nile on barges to take advantage
of seasonal nectar flows."


My daughter is an archeologist who has worked at the Rehov site in Israel.  The ancient Phoenicians brought bees in clay tube-like hives into the Sinai from Turkey.  The desert in the Sinai and parts of Israel doesn't support bees for up to 10 months per year.  Only wealthy people had beehives, and they were kept in the middle of walled towns because they were considered so valuable...everybody lived right next to the bees.  And when there were no flowers (which apparently was most of the time) they fed the bees dates mixed with water.

Christina


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