Biblical bee-keepers picked best bees

摘要

The Bible didn't dub it "a land flowing with milk and honey" for nothing. Not only are the oldest known beehives in the world in Israel, bee-keepers of the time selected the best bees for the job.rnAncient Egyptian paintings depict bee-keeping, but hives were not found in the Middle East until 2005, when Amihai Mazar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem excavated 30 clay cylinders just like the hives in the paintings, in the ancient town of Tel Rehov.