It is preserved with religious veneration by the peasantry. One of the most famous ancient trees in Ireland is the Muckross Friary Yew which stands in the center of the cloisters of the ruined ...
Visit the gnarled old tree that witnessed Magna Carta. The Ankerwycke Yew stands just outside the capital, about a mile west of the M25 at Runnymede. It's at least 35 times more ancient than the ...
Liu Fangling (right), a plant pathology expert, and her colleague Wang Hong, who are part of a team of "tree doctors", inspect an ancient tree in Dujiangyan's Lidui Park in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
A tree named Sheba has been grown from an ancient seed found in the Judean Desert, dating back to between 993CE and 1202 CE. Researchers believe it may belong to a lost Biblical lineage and ...
(Credit: Vinayaraj / CC BY-SA 3.0) A mysterious ancient seed recovered during archaeological excavations of a cave near Jerusalem has grown into a tree that may be the source of a medicinal balm ...