In 2012, French beekeepers encountered an unusual phenomenon when they discovered blue and green #honey in their hives. This strange coloration immediately aroused the interest and curiosity of beekeepers, and they went in search of the cause. In their investigations, they found that the bees were collecting colored sugar from a nearby M&M factory.
The factory had left remnants of colored sugar in the candy manufacturing process, and the bees had used this sugar as a food source.
Ähnliches war nach einem Feuer bei HARIBO in Bonn passiert: Die Bienen haben an der Gummibärchenmasse genascht und bunten Honig produziert. Bemerkenswert waren die dadurch gemessenen Distanzen, die die Bienen zurückgelegt haben: Bis zu 10 km.
The world's only intact Roman legionary shield was discovered in the 1930s at the site of the ancient Roman city of Dura-Europos in modern-day Syria. This extraordinary artifact, dating from early 3rd Century AD, provides invaluable insight into the daily life and military equipment of #Roman soldiers.
The shield, made of wood and iron with a detailed boss and bronze fittings, was remarkably preserved in the anaerobic conditions of the city's soil.
An enormous hoard of 1,400 #Roman silver coins, and a single #Celtic gold coin of the Dobunni tribe, have been unearthed by builders working on a site near #Worcester. Already nicknamed 'The Worcester Conquest Hoard', it contains coins dating from the Roman Republic all the way up to the reign of Nero, 55 AD, and would have been buried around this time at the outset of the teenage emperor's reign.
A 3,400 year-old ancient #Egyptian beauty box with original containers with traces of makeup and beauty products!
The wooden (sycamore) box is divided into compartments, holding alabaster, faience, and coloured glass jars, inside which are traces of unguents and fat-based creams. Found in the intact Theban tomb (TT8) of Kha and his wife Merit in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin
Phoenician or Carthaginian glass pendants from 5th Century BC. Rod-formed, trailed and tooled glass, around 6cm in height, they were gifted to the Metropolitan Museum in 1881.
Have you ever stood in front of the Giant Sequoia Tree exhibit at the Museum?
When this tree sprouted around CE 550, the English language didn’t even exist! This slice came from a 300 ft (91.4 m) tall tree felled by loggers in 1891. Today, it's illegal to cut down giant sequoias.
On Dec 3rd 995, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) launched. A joint project between NASA and ESA, SOHO was only designed to last two years, but a quarter-century later, it's still revolutionizing how we see our Sun.
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Three images in a grid layout.
1. Two jars of honey. One is the usual pale golden colour, the other is dark blue-grey.
2. A close-up of honeycomb. Some of the cells are golden, but others are various shades of green, blue and grey.
3. A man holds up a wooden honeycomb frame. The lower half is golden yellow. The upper half is dark grey-blue.
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