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Researchers recently made a sticky discovery.

They found 2,500-year-old honey, sealed in a vessel and buried underground for nearly three millennia.

The residue was found in bronze jars at an underground shrine in Paestum, an ancient Greek settlement in modern-day Campania, Italy. The artifacts date back to the 6th century B.C.

The jars were first found by archaeologists in 1954, but the residue in them has eluded experts – until now.

STUDENTS COOK ANCIENT RICE DISH BASED ON 2,000-YEAR-OLD MANUSCRIPT WITH SURPRISINGLY HEALTHY RESULTS

In a study published by the American Chemical Society on July 30, experts concluded that the waxy residue was once honey.

Luciana Carvalho, a research associate at the University of Oxford

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