
Sunday, 12th February 1905.
The French Archeologist, Gaston Maspero opened a tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings belonging to Tutankhamun’s grandparents, Yuya and Tjuyu.
“One of the jars we had uncorked contained pasty oil, another almost liquid honey that had not lost its fragrance. As it was left uncovered on one of the steps of the staircase, near the entrance to the corridor, a marauding wasp, lost in the Valley of the Kings, came prowling greedily around the neck of the jar; It was necessary to shoo him away with a handkerchief to prevent him from taking his share of this honey gathered more than three thousand years ago by ancient bees from the flowers of the Theban countryside.” - Causeries d’Égypte, Gaston Maspero (1907).
3000 year old honey, still fresh enough to drive a wasp crazy.
If only the things we leave behind could endure like honey.
