Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Υδρόμελι" in Greek language version.
...Therefore to our synopsis: Mead is the general name for all drinks made of honey.
...mead was known in Europe long before wine, although archaeological evidence of it is rather ambiguous. This is principally because the confirmed presence of beeswax or certain types of pollen ... is only indicative of the presence of honey (which could have been used for sweetening some other drink) - not necessarily of the production of mead.
