Tree from 2,000-year-old seed is doing well
Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 13:21
in Biology & Nature
(AP) -- Just over three years old and about four-feet tall, Methuselah is growing well. "It's lovely," Dr. Sarah Sallon said of the date palm, whose parents may have provided food for the besieged Jews at Masada some 2,000 years ago.