{"id":473,"date":"2023-01-01T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judeandates.com\/en\/?page_id=473"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:37:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:37:03","slug":"methuselah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/judeandates.com\/en\/about\/methuselah\/","title":{"rendered":"Methuselah"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"473\" class=\"elementor elementor-473\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1e68876 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1e68876\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e8e51b2\" data-id=\"e8e51b2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e3f1b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e3f1b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Methuselah was sprouted in 2005 from a date seed over 2000 year old. It was the first ancient seed to be germinated in our project and at that time was the oldest ever to be grown!<br \/>Discovered in the 1960s during archaeologist, Prof. Yigal Yadin&#8217;s excavations of Masada, a fortress-palace built by Herod overlooking the Dead Sea, this ancient date seed was found buried under rubble close to the Northern Palace, and ruins of ancient food stores. In 2005 Dr. Sarah Sallon, founder and director of the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, initiated a project to germinate ancient seeds recovered from local archaeological sites as part of a program to study Israel&#8217;s medicinal flora. Her \u201cAncient Seed Project\u201d aimed to restore species once found in this region but now extinct.<br \/>Dr. Sallon turned to Dr. Elaine Solowey, founder of the Center for Sustainable Agriculture at the Arava Institute, who had extensive experience cultivating desert plants growing under extreme conditions. She decided to accept the challenge. Astonishingly one of the 3 seeds from Masada planted by Dr. Solowey, germinated.<br \/>Named after the oldest person mentioned in the Bible, Methuselah grew and developed as a male date palm tree and was planted in a special enclosure at Kibbutz Ketura in 2011.<br \/>Published in 2008 by Dr. Sallon in the prestigious journal <strong>Science<\/strong>, Methuselah quickly became a celebrity, written about widely in the media, and earning a place in the <strong>Guinness Book of World Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-07765d8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"07765d8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9e67fa9\" data-id=\"9e67fa9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-feb58bb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"feb58bb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-54c229e\" data-id=\"54c229e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c87076c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c87076c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/judeandates.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The-Ancient-Date-Did-you-know.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-417\" alt=\"The Ancient Date Did you-know\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judeandates.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The-Ancient-Date-Did-you-know.jpg 700w, https:\/\/judeandates.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The-Ancient-Date-Did-you-know-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" style=\"width:100%;height:87.14%;max-width:700px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Methuselah, the 1st Judean Date Palm to be grown from a seed over 2000 years old<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d1175c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d1175c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kibbutz Ketura, 2022<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methuselah was sprouted in 2005 from a date seed over 2000 year old. It was the first ancient seed to be germinated in our project and at that time was the oldest ever to be grown!Discovered in the 1960s during archaeologist, Prof. Yigal Yadin&#8217;s excavations of Masada, a fortress-palace built by Herod overlooking the Dead&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/judeandates.com\/en\/about\/methuselah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Methuselah<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":249,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-473","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Methuselah - Dates from the Ancient Judean Kingdom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/judeandates.com\/en\/about\/methuselah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Methuselah - Dates from the Ancient Judean Kingdom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Methuselah was sprouted in 2005 from a date seed over 2000 year old. 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