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	Ancient Beehives

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9-6-2008 11:37 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5ab866aa-d201-43f4-bf16-bf7b18cb5762/D9024AF6-08CF-49D1-9253-21B7333727DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36043/title/Honey_of_a_discovery" href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36043/title/Honey_of_a_discovery" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciencenews.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36043/title/Honey_of_a_discovery"><DIV class="topic content_description print">
    Honey of a discovery    </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36043/title/Honey_of_a_discovery"><DIV class="content_summary print">An ancient Israeli site yields the oldest known archaeological example of beekeeping </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36043/title/Honey_of_a_discovery"><P><O:SMARTTAGTYPE name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></O:SMARTTAGTYPE><O:SMARTTAGTYPE name="country-region" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></O:SMARTTAGTYPE>The Bible refers to ancient <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">Israel</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE> as the “land flowing with
milk and honey,” so it’s fitting that one of its towns milked honey for all it
was worth. Scientists have unearthed the remains of a large-scale beekeeping
operation at a nearly 3,000-year-old Israeli site, which dates to the time of
biblical accounts of King David and King Solomon.
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called Tel Rehov revealed the Iron Age settlement. From 2005 to 2007, workers
at Tel Rehov uncovered the oldest known remnants of human-made beehives,
excavation director Amihai Mazar and colleagues report in the September <EM>Antiquity.</EM> No evidence of beekeeping has
emerged at any other archaeological sites in the <ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Middle
 East</ST1:PLACE> or surrounding regions.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D9024AF6-08CF-49D1-9253-21B7333727DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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