Palm tree grown from 2,000-year-old date stone
Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 13:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The seed germinated after being recovered from the rubble of King Herod's pleasure palace and has now been dated as 2,000 years old, smashing the record for the oldest seed ever grown
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