The History of Honey — The Ancient Sweetener That Outlasted Empires
The History of Honey — The Ancient Sweetener That Outlasted Empires 🔔 Subscribe for more fascinating history: / @before-the-fork From a cliff face in eastern Spain where someone climbed a vine ladder eight thousand years ago for a fistful of stolen comb, to a sealed clay jar found untouched in the tomb of a boy pharaoh in 1922. This video traces honey's eight-thousand-year reign as humanity's only sweetener, starting with the Cuevas de la Araña cave painting, the oldest known image of a human being harvesting honey anywhere on Earth. It follows honey down the Nile, where Egyptians believed bees were born from the tears of the sun god Ra, pharaohs carried the title Lord of Bees, and beekeepers floated mud hives on rafts up and down the river so their colonies could chase the flowering seasons. It moves through Athens, where the lawmaker Solon regulated hive spacing by law and Aristotle built a glass-sided hive just to watch the bees work, and into the mountains near the Black Sea, where wild honey twice brought entire armies to their knees, ten thousand Greek mercenaries under Xenophon in 401 BCE, and fifteen hundred Roman soldiers three centuries later, poisoned deliberately and slaughtered where they fell. Then a single voyage in 1493 that ended honey's monopoly for good, a handful of sugarcane cuttings carried across the Atlantic by Columbus, planted in the soil of Hispaniola, and grown into an industry built on the forced labor of millions of enslaved Africans. A story of gold, war, empire, and a substance so chemically stubborn it can outlast the civilization that made it. And a final twist: in 1984, more than three thousand honeybees flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger and built a working honeycomb in zero gravity, the same food that once fed a pharaoh into the afterlife, now proven to work in outer space too. If you enjoyed the video, like, subscribe, and join Before the Fork for more fascinating food history. ARTICLES AND SOURCES USED FOR RESEARCH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_honey https://www.ancient-origins.net/histo... https://www.tastingtable.com/1216602/... https://earthlymission.com/honey-basi...
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