> "They [the hives] were found in orderly rows, three high, in a room
that 
> could have accommodated around 100 hives."

So the "factory-farmed bees" that the granoloa and berkenstock crowd
have disparaged as "unsustainable" turn out to be just as "sustainable"
as migratory beekeeping was shown to be by Egyptain records.

> "the Holy Land was home to a highly developed beekeeping industry
nearly 
> 3,000 years ago"

Yep, it was an "industry".  It was farming. Still is.

> "The finding is especially unique, Marcus said, because of its
location 
> in the middle of a thriving city - a strange place for thousands of
bees."

Golly, even "urban beekeeping" is old hat.

The burden of proof of sustainability appears to have been reversed.
Mere longetivty alone seems to make the case for mainstream beekeeping.

3,000 years of tradition is hard to refute.

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