Similar to their botanic predecessor, all six date palm plants came from ancient seeds ... it will enable modern scientists to better understand how Judean farmers cultivated the lands to grow ...

BEST OF 2021: Forests of Judean date palm trees once covered ancient Israel, from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea. The fruit of the tree symbolised life and prosperity and was praised in ancient ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a large multi-story building alongside a way station for those traveling between the Dead Sea ...

The oldest known plant seeds to germinate are 2,000-year-old seeds of a Judean date palm. Even older plant material (though ...

Archaeologists working in the Judean Desert have made headway on an ... Previously thought to date back to the First Temple period (1,000 BC to 586 BC), it is now believed to have operated around ...

Join an experience of discovery in one of the richest desert excavations ever conducted, illuminating and transforming our historical knowledge of a unique site.