Show FLEA EMBALMED IN HONEY little insect pest found which met its fate in egypt many thousands of years ago it Is believed that the earliest food storo store laid aside for ills his wants by annn will which Is still in existence Is a jar of honey found in nit nil egyptian bg tomb and probably placed there tor for the lie sustenance tei innee of the dead during ney across the ho stygian river says the lie american forestry magazine when found the honey hod changed into info a very dry candy and it lind hod lost its sweetness though it could still to be identified as honey in the bottom of tile the jar well covered with lioney was a dead flea of precisely the same sort as those plague Egypt to ills his day apparently the insect had hopped into tile the jar while the last rites over the lead dead were being observed and when tile alie jar wits was corked the little fellow was shut up tip within and jahe the true patriot lie probably could lieve declared that death was sweet anyway lie hu stink sank to the bottom while the honey was still soft and there the archaeologists archeologists found him after a good ninny thousands of years |