Month: August 2026

A jar of honey sealed inside an Egyptian tomb around 1000 BCE was opened by archaeologists in the 20th century and found still edible, preserved by its own low water content, natural hydrogen peroxide, and a pH acidic enough that no known bacterium can grow in it

Sealed honey from ancient Egyptian burial contexts is reported to remain edible after millennia — a claim whose specific instances are hard to source, but whose underlying chemistry, driven by…