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This 6,000-year-old Ancient Grain from a Cave Near Masada Reveals Much about Agricultural History in Israel"These archaeological remains provided a unique opportunity for us to finally sequence a Chalcolithic plant genome..." (Israel)—[Israel21c.org] Barley grains from the Chalcolithic period 6,000 years ago have become the oldest plant genome ever to be sequenced, announced a team of Israeli and international researchers in the journal Nature Genetics. (Photo by Ehud Weiss/via Israel21c.org)
The barley grains and tens of thousands of other plant remains were retrieved from the remote Yoram Cave near one of Israel's most popular heritage sites, the famous Masada fortress overlooking the Dead Sea. It is known that wheat and barley were already grown 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, a sickle-shaped region stretching from present-day Iraq and Iran through Turkey and Syria into Lebanon, Jordan and Israel.
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