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How old is the

oldest tree? 1804 First steam
locomotive
is built

The world’s oldest living tree

started life in around 3050 bce,
making it more than 5,065
years old. The tree is a Great

c.800 ce
Basin bristlecone pine in the Vikings raid
Europe
White Mountains of California. northwest

OLDEST SEED
The oldest
bristlecone
pine has lived
through all of
recorded human
history.

432 bce Parthenon is
completed in Greece

When the world’s oldest tree
While excavating King Herod’s Palace sprouted from its seed, people
at Masada, Israel, in the 1960s, wrote with pictures and symbols,
archeologists found Judean date not letters and words; the wheel
palm seeds that were at least was unknown in most of the world;
2,000 years old. In 2005, one seed and the great civilization of ancient
successfully sprouted and was planted Egypt was only just beginning.
at Kibbutz Ketura. The tree has been
nicknamed “Methuselah,” after the
Biblical man said to be the oldest c.3050 bce
person ever to live. The tree’s
seed sprouts

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