From: Michael Schwartz (mschwartz@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu 21 Feb 2002 - 18:55:56 EET
Links to webpages about beekeeping in the Ancient World:
http://www.arab.net/egypt/culture/et_beekeeping.html
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/beekeeping.htm
http://www.main.org/cahbs/oldhist.htm
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/beenet/beestars.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/LithPict.html
http://sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/beeconf/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/agriculture/entomology/beekeeping/gener al/bees_history/bee_fables.html
For those of you who read German (and can translate for the rest of us):
http://www.biokular.de/15/BIENEN.HTM
A good overview of the economic importance of beekeeping, albeit focussed on the modern day:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w0076e/w0076e00.htm
-- Michael Richard Schwartz | Language is my playground, mschwartz@mindspring.com | and words, its slides and Ann Arbor, Michigan USA | swingsets. -- yours truly
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