Oldest ever evidence of HONEY is discovered in 3,500-year-old pottery shards

People living in West Africa 3,500 years ago were hunting wild bee hives for their honey and storing it in pots, scientists have discovered.  Beeswax residue was found intact on recently excavated shards of pottery from the Nok people of Nigeria — the oldest evidence of honey hunting ever found.   Pottery fragments reveal beeswax was … Read more