Bronze Jars Found in Italy Contain 2,500-Year-Old Honey, Archaeologists Find

Jul 30, 2025 - 16:15
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Bronze Jars Found in Italy Contain 2,500-Year-Old Honey, Archaeologists Find
Paestum honey: (A) underground shrine in Paestum, Italy; (B) one of the hydrias on display alongside a Perspex box containing the residue at the Ashmolean Museum in 2019; (C) graphic representation of the arrangement of the bronze jars inside the shrine; (D) sample from the core of the residue. Image credit: da Costa Carvalho et al., doi: 10.1021/jacs.5c04888.

Archaeologists have re-examined a 2500-year-old residue found in bronze jars at an underground shrine in Paestum, Italy, previously identified as a wax/fat/resin mixture.

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