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Palm tree grown from 2,000-year-old date stone
Thursday, June 12th, 2008From: guardian.co.uk
An ancient seed that germinated after being recovered from the rubble of King Herod’s pleasure palace has been dated as 2,000 years old, smashing the record for the oldest seed ever grown.
The seed was among three recovered during excavations at Masada, an imposing 2,044-year-old clifftop fortress on the edge of the Judean desert overlooking [...]