Comments on: Ancient 2000-year old date pit sprouts

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:24:34 +0000

Yes, there was a jar of seeds of which ONLY THREE SEEDS were for the Judean date palm. The other seeds were different plants like pomegranate, etc.

By: Miriam Kresh

Miriam Kresh — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:47:42 +0000

There is no evidence that there is an entire jar of these seeds, Zach. Prof. Solowey spoke of three date seeds and that out of her attempts to sprout them, only one responded.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:39:09 +0000

Archaeologists found an entire jar of these seeds. If Methuselah is male, why can’t researchers just keep germinating the seeds until one is found to be female? Granted some of them might not work, but Methuselah did, so why can’t more?

By: Miriam

Miriam — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:05:47 +0000

thank you for writing this article – have been wondering how the date seed was doing.