Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds
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The seeds discovered in the Judean desert are both male and female, raising the prospect of producing dates.
Researchers have successfully planted and grown a handful of date seeds from fruit that ripened around the time of Jesus in southern Israel.
The seeds, known as Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith, and Hannah, were discovered among many others at archaeological sites in the Judean desert.
It is not the team’s first time growing ancient seeds: in 2008, they reported germinating a 1,900-year-old Judean date palm seed from Masada, an ancient site extended by Herod the Great in the first century BC that overlooks the Dead Sea. That plant, a male, was named Methuselah after the Bible’s oldest character.
However, the new study goes further, involving not only more seeds, but also shedding light on how Judean farmers may have cultivated the famous plants.
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