Currentty there is an exhibition in the Eretz Yisrael Museum in Tel Aviv about the 3000 year old industrial apiary found in Tel Rehov in the Jordan River Valley, and there is a publication catalog. The excavator is Prof Amihai Mazar, emeritus, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I am sure he would be happy to be helpful. The particular type of bee was identified, Anatolian bees. An old article- http://www.rehov.org/Rehov/publications/Mazar_NEA70_4.pdf. 
http://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/e/345/

The Catalogue I. Ziffer (editor) It Is the Land of Honey. Discoveries from Tel Reḥov, the Early Days of the Israelite Monarchy. MUSA-Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, 2016. 256 pp. 171 color illustrations, Hebrew – English Available at the Museum Shop, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Price ILS 80 ($ 22) ships worldwide, shipping: ca. $ 17 Orders from outside Israel: please contact Ms. Anat Yonai, shop director [log in to unmask] Tel. 972-3-7455716; 972-547892820 (payment is possible by credit card)

Citation: “Industrial apiculture in the Jordan valley during Biblical times with Anatolian honey bees,” by Guy Bloch, Tiago Francoy, Ido Wachtel, Nava Panitz-Cohen, Stefan Fuchs, and Amihai Mazar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107 No. 23, June 8, 2010. 

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Jo Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear All,
Can anyone recommend some reading on the uses of honey in ancient Greece, and more broadly any anthropological studies of honey and its use in ritual (not limited to Greece, or even to the Mediterranean)? Eva Crane's books are great but very wide-ranging, there is one on Egypt (Tears of Re, by Gene Kritsky) and some details about it in Linear B in Bendall's Economics of Mycenaean Religion. I have plenty of info on ceramic beehives already, so need to provide those.
Thanks a lot,
Jo


Dr Jo Day
Lecturer in Greek Archaeology and Classical Museum Curator
School of Classics, K211 Newman Building, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

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