Modern

Times
400 BC
181 BC 1330
23 A.D 79 A.D
ROMAN TIMES
Pliny described white
bees wax which he got
by boiling yellow bees
wax in salt water. This
was then used in broth
and feed to those with
dysentery, it was also
used as a skin softener.
When the Romans
defeated the Corsicans
and imposed a tax of
100,000 lbs of bees
wax.
Candles of bees wax
were at one time
required by the Roman
Catholic Church as the
exclusive and only
candles.
Greek Historians say
that Persian coated
bodies were a form of
embalming.
In Medieval European
times wax was a a unit
of trade for taxes or
other. Farmers in one
region of France paid 2
lbs of bees wax per
year.
Today bees wax is
sometimes used in
Automobile waxes but
normally it is most used
in furniture wax and
polishes.
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