The San Fransisco Chronicle reported

history channel documentary 2015 The San Fransisco Chronicle reported, Sunday 12, 2005, that Archeologist , Ehud Netzer, found seed from the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, from the tremendous royal residence worked by King Herod on top of Mount Masada in Israel. The Romans decimated the castle after the Jews conferred mass suicide on Mount Masada, as opposed to surrender to the Roman fighters. Classicist Ehud Netzer, found the date palm seed in a reserve at the removal site that probably had been hurled into a corner after the Mount Masada Jews were cornered.A few seed were dealt with by Eaine Solowey with the development hormone Gibberellic corrosive broadly looked into and tried at Yale University in the 1960's, and inside five weeks a 2000 year old seed grew to shape a little tree named the "Methuselah Palm." Years before this test was done, some Egyptian Pharaoh seed of grain were grown yet did not survive. Seeds of exhumed lotus water lilies, going back 1200 years prior, have been grown from their antiquated lethargy to develop into lotus lilies.

Date palms grew up to 80ft tall in a stream valley 7 miles wide, where old Israel had created a monster economy. The product of the date palm was known for its high caliber and was traded all through the Roman empire.The seed were planted on Jan 25, 2005, by a botanist, Eaine Solowey, who was taught at UCLA....Other seed were sent off for radioactive cell based dating to the University of Zürich, Switzerland, and resolved to be roughly 2000 years old.This astounding revelation of Date Palm Seeds, Phoenix dactylifera, that have been affirmed by logical specialists to date around 2000 years of age prompted an inconceivable wonder that restored a torpid 2000 year old seed into a living tree...the Date Palm...that symbolized the tree that sustained the Jews in the guaranteed place where there is "drain and nectar", the place that is known for Canaan, that got to be antiquated Israel. Presently those old seeds of the Date Palm have been restored to grow and develop as Israel did, an area that additionally lay torpid for a long time. Israel has likewise been Resurrected.