Turkish Delight: Ancient Israelites Import Honeybees

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The “land flowing with milk and honey,” it turns out, got their honeybees from Turkey.

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Footnotes

See Amihai Mazar and Nava Panitz-Cohen, “To What God? Altar and a House Shrine from Tel Rehov Puzzle Archaeologists,” BAR 34:04.

Endnotes

See Guy Bloch et al., “Industrial Apiculture in the Jordan Valley During Biblical Times with Anatolian Honeybees,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 125 (2010), pp. 11240–11244.