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I'm reading a book called "Robbing the Bees" at the moment which is about all the history of honey and beekeeping.
In the book there is a story of some Victorian explorers who stumbled across a sealed Egyptian tomb. Inside the tomb there were all the usual artifacts including a large sealed stoneware jar. They decided to open the jar and inside they found that there was honey so they proceeded to eat it, after a few mouthfulls one of the explorers noticed that there was a hair in his mouth so he decided to take a closer look in the jar to find to his horror that there was a mummified body of a child immersed. The honey had been used as a preservative.
In the book there is a story of some Victorian explorers who stumbled across a sealed Egyptian tomb. Inside the tomb there were all the usual artifacts including a large sealed stoneware jar. They decided to open the jar and inside they found that there was honey so they proceeded to eat it, after a few mouthfulls one of the explorers noticed that there was a hair in his mouth so he decided to take a closer look in the jar to find to his horror that there was a mummified body of a child immersed. The honey had been used as a preservative.