Ancient walnut forests linked to languages, trade routes

Friday, September 4, 2015 - 05:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

If Persian walnut trees could talk, they might tell of the numerous traders who moved along the Silk Roads' thousands of miles over thousands of years, carrying among their valuable merchandise the seeds that would turn into the mighty walnut forests that are spread across Asia.

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