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Dollop of honey please

Dollop of Honey Please Dec2020

Don’t you just love a spoonful or a dollop of honey? Historically, honey was used by the ancient Egyptians as a sacrifice to their gods/deities.It was also added as a sweetener and in making honey cakes, which were then offered to the gods.Honey was also used to embalm their dead. The ancient Egyptians included honey […]

Makeup ingredients since Ancient times

The Ladies in Blue Knossos Palace

Whenever we travel, we always incorporate some historical locations as we believe this is a great educational lesson for our children. We can better understand the people, and just how advanced the previous generations were. In Santorini, we stopped by Akrotiri, the prehistoric home of the ancient Minoans from over 4000 BC, which was well […]