>"This reminds me of the story of
>Alexander the Great.  He died about
>332BC in the Mesopotamian region of
>Babylon. However one of his generals
>wanted him buried in Alexandria Egypt.
>They shipped his body in honey and it
>arrived months later in nice shape.
>Sweet little story.
>
>I don't know how verifiable this story is

Hilda Ransome, in The Sacred Bee, repeats an account of Alexander's body
"placed in white honey which had not been melted."  She adds that "no
confirmation of this custom, however, has been found recorded on any
inscription."
So white honey may reach out from the tomb.
Ransome also describes the use of honey by the Egyptians for preserving the
dead.
M. McNeil

MEA McNeil