Methuselah's Promise

In 2005, botanist Dr. Elaine Solowey of Israel's Arava Institute planted a seed unlike any other. Recovered from excavations at the ancient fortress of Masada — the same Masada where Jewish rebels made their last stand against Rome in 73 AD — the seed had been carbon dated to approximately 2,000 years old. By every measure of science, it should have been dead.…