Hive-Maker followed lines of Mesopotamian bees away from the farm, and found wild colonies in the trees and caves of the surrounding countryside.
Images: An axe chops into a log hive, as splelunking beekeepers scale cliffs find comb in caves.
The Mesopotamian Bonanza
Ella Spiralum and Zoltan Abbassid return from their New Mexico honeymoon to find that the Mesopotamian bees are an astounding source of wealth, producing young and honey in prodigious amounts.