Georgia - the Homeland of beekeeping
Proto-Georgians were not only the first winemakers and tailors in the world, but they also were a pioneer beekeepers. After a thorough examination of some five-millennia-plus-old jars unearthed in Georgia in 2003, archeologists have declared that the artifacts contain the world’s oldest honey.
The honey stains found in the ceramic vessels, found 170 kilometers west of Tbilisi, in the Borjomi municipality, village Sakire, near the mountain, called Kodiani. This honey was made by bees that buzzed around in Georgia 5,500 years ago, in approx. 3500 BC - some 2,000 years older than the honey found in Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb, which had been considered the oldest before.