Topic: Sarah Sallon

Ancient Palm Resurrected from 2000-Year-Old Seed

Science - 454 days ago
Scientists have successfully grown a date palm from a 2000-year-old seed dug up from the Judean desert. Once upon a time, the Dead Sea region was famous for its full-size, succulent dates. Indeed, Judean dates represented Israel's biggest export business 2000 ...

Jesus-era seed is the oldest to germinate

New Scientist - 1340 days ago
Forget cryopreservation - hot and dry conditions might be all you need to awake far into the future. A date palm seed some 2000 years old - preserved by nothing more than storage in hot and dry conditions - has germinated, making it the oldest ...

Extinct Tree From Christ's Time Rises From the Dead

LiveScience - 1340 days ago
Scientists have grown a tree from what may be the oldest seed ever germinated. The new sapling was sprouted from a 2,000-year-old date palm excavated in Masada, the site of a cliff-side fortress in Israel where ancient Jews are said to ...

The Jesus tree: Date palm is grown from 2,000-year-old seed

ThisIsLondon.co.uk - 1340 days ago
Last updated at 12:43pm on . The 5ft-tall plant was grown from a 2,000-year-old seed found at the ancient Israeli fortress of Masada. The scientists who grew the seed said it came from a date eaten by one of the 960 ...

Podcast Interview >

Science - 1341 days ago
From the Science Podcast: an interview with Sarah Sallon on the germination, genetics, and growth of an ancient date seed. Subscribe to the Science Podcast. The contents of this podcast interview represent the opinion of the author and may go beyond the ...

Jesus-era date is the oldest seed to germinate

New Scientist - 1341 days ago
Forget cryopreservation - hot and dry conditions might be all you need to awake far into the future. A date palm seed some 2000 years old - preserved by nothing more than storage in hot and dry conditions - has germinated, making it the oldest ...