‘Biblical’ Tree Resurrected From 1,000-Year-Old Mystery Seed Found in Judean Cave
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Biblical-Tree-Resurrected.jpg?itok=UlFH_5rQ"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Biblical-Tree-Resurrected.jpg?itok=UlFH_5rQ" width="610" height="315" alt="Left; 3-meter-tall tree ‘Sheba’; Right; Close up of the leaves." /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>Researchers have successfully brought back to life a mysterious seed discovered in a cave in the Judean Desert during the 1980s, radiocarbon dated to more than 1,000 years old! To add to the intrigue, DNA analysis links it to a genus of tree that, although now extinct, is mentioned in the Bible. Named ‘Sheba’, scientists believe it to be a remnant of a now-extinct population of trees that once thrived in the Southern Levant, a region that includes present-day Israel, Palestine, and Jordan.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The sapling grown from the seed, planted around 14 years ago." class="media-image" height="392" style="width: 610px; height: 392px;" width="610" typeof="foaf:Image" src="
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The sapling grown from the seed, planted around 14 years ago. (Guy Eisner)</p>
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