Only this story is not about a Jewish carpenter whose death founded an obscure sect that burst into prominence with the conversion of Emperor Constantine in the 4th Century. No, this story is about Judean Date Palms.
How cool is this? Ancient seeds were unearthed in a clay pot, and this date tree, driven to extinction millennia ago, sprouted and lives anew!
Pardon my saying so, but that is cooler, in real science and in our real lives, than similar stories that are not supported by scientific evidence.
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