Solowey posing next to"Methuselah", the first male palm tree germinated from 2,000-year-old seeds discovered in the Judean desert, in Kibbutz Ketura, southern Israel. Photos: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP
But Sallon's bet that the Dead Sea's unique, bone-dry environment could enable the seeds from the Masada fortress to flourish has been proven right. Bringing back the ancient variety with Solowey, a specialist in sustainable agriculture, was not just a novelty project, Sallon said, but offered"a beacon of hope" for a planet battling the climate crisis and mass species extinction.
In 2004, she asked Israel's Bar Ilan University for access to a few of its preserved date palm seeds found in 1960 under debris at Masada, the Herodian-era mountain-top Jewish encampment famous for having been besieged by Roman forces in the first century. Solowey recounted how Sallon sent her the ancient seeds from the fortress with the instruction to"try to sprout them".
In her greenhouse, where she grows many dozens of plants, she tried to sprout three of the seeds, but for weeks saw no signs of life.Then, one day in March 2005, small cracks opened in the earth of one of the date palm pots, a sign that roots were beginning to take hold.
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