(LONDON DAILY MAIL) A young date palm named Methuselah has blossomed for the third time after a 2,000-year old seed was planted eight years ago.
The ancient seeds, one of which has produced Methuselah, were discovered in a clay jar at the site of Herod the Great's fortified palace in Masada, Israel in 1973.
While the seeds languished in a drawer of Tel Aviv's Bar-Ilan University for years, one was eventually planted in 2005 and have proved sceptics wrong after producing a seedling - effectively resurrecting a plant last seen in Bibical times.