The tears of Re : : beekeeping in ancient Egypt / / Gene Kritsky.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Oxford University Press,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (159 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Beekeeping begins
- The delight of Re: beekeeping during the Old Kingdom
- Instability and reunification: beekeeping during the Middle Kingdom
- The age of empire: beekeeping during the New Kingdom
- The Saite period
- The Greco-Roman period
- The honey bee hieroglyph
- The administration and economics of Egyptian beekeeping
- Bees and food
- Honey and healing
- Bees, gods, and feasts
- The magic of beeswax
- The afterlife of ancient Egyptian beekeeping.