{"id":242422,"date":"2026-08-08T22:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/a-jar-of-honey-sealed-inside-an-egyptian-tomb-around-1000-bce-was-opened-by-archaeologists-in-the-20th-century-and-found-still-edible"},"modified":"2026-08-08T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:04:36","slug":"a-jar-of-honey-sealed-inside-an-egyptian-tomb-around-1000-bce-was-opened-by-archaeologists-in-the-20th-century-and-found-still-edible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/a-jar-of-honey-sealed-inside-an-egyptian-tomb-around-1000-bce-was-opened-by-archaeologists-in-the-20th-century-and-found-still-edible","title":{"rendered":"A jar of honey sealed inside an Egyptian tomb around 1000 BCE was opened by archaeologists in the 20th century and found still edible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-jar-of-honey-sealed-inside-an-egyptian-tomb-around-1000-bce-was-opened-by-archaeologists-in-the-20th-century-and-found-still-edible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sealed honey from ancient Egyptian burial contexts is reported to remain edible after millennia \u2014 a claim whose specific instances are hard to source, but whose underlying chemistry, driven by low water content, acidic pH and bee-made hydrogen peroxide, is real and well-documented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sealed honey from ancient Egyptian burial contexts is reported to remain edible after millennia \u2014 a claim whose specific instances are hard to source, but whose underlying chemistry, driven by low water content, acidic pH and bee-made hydrogen peroxide, is real and well-documented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}