A sapling is sprouting from a two-thousand-year-old seed. The Judean date tree supposedly has medicinal uses, which today's scientists are keen to test." Dubbed the "Methuselah Tree" after the oldest person in the Bible, the new plant has been growing steadily, and after 26...
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Feb. 27, 2007 1:01 | Updated Feb. 27, 2007 1:42
Analysis: Christian heresy of the Talpiot tomb?
By MATTHEW WAGNER
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