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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

A Symbol of Immortality: Evidence of Honey in Bronze Jars Found in a Paestum Shrine Dating to 530-510 BCE.

Luciana da Costa Carvalho, Elisabete Pires, Kelly Domoney, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, James S O McCullagh

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Luciana da Costa CarvalhoMass Spectrometry Research Facility, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1884-3121
Elisabete PiresMass Spectrometry Research Facility, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom.
Kelly DomoneyAshmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH, United Kingdom.
Gabriel ZuchtriegelParco Archeologico di Pompei, Via Plinio 26, Pompei, NA 80045, Italy.
James S O McCullaghMass Spectrometry Research Facility, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4733-1205

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study re-examines a 2500-year-old residue found in bronze jars at an underground shrine in Paestum (Italy), previously identified as a wax/fat/resin mixture excluding honey from its composition. Our multianalytical approach detected lipids, saccharide decomposition products, hexose sugars, and major royal jelly proteins supporting the hypothesis that the jars once also contained honey/honeycombs. The research highlights the value of reinvestigating archeological residues in museums with advanced biomolecular techniques and offers a more specific method for detecting bee products in ancient contexts.

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HoneyHistory, AncientItaly

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PMID40736130
PMCPMC12371870

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