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The Olive tree of Vouves in 2018. The Olive tree of Vouves (Greek: Ελιά Βουβών) is an olive tree in the village of Ano Vouves in the municipal unit of Kolymvari in Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Probably one of the oldest olive trees in the world, it still produces olives today. The exact age of the tree cannot be determined.
Athena's gift to her protégés was the olive she planted on the sacred rock of the Acropolis. From this primordial olive twelve new trees were transplanted in the sanctuary of the hero Akademos and comprised a sacred grove. These trees, we are told by our ancient sources, were called moriai.
The olive tree and its oil were a major component in the Ancient Israelite society, and have been important to the Jewish people for millennia. [1] [2] Olives are often mentioned in Jewish religious texts and are generally seen as a symbol of peace, [3] [4] wisdom, [5] and vitality. [6]
Olea oleaster, the wild-olive, has been considered by various botanists a valid species and a subspecies [1] of the cultivated olive tree, Olea europea, which is a tree of multiple origins [2] that was domesticated, it now appears, at various places during the fourth and third millennia BCE, in selections drawn from varying local populations. [3]
The complex was one of hundreds of Native American ancient monuments identified and surveyed for the Smithsonian Institution in the mid-nineteenth century by Ephraim G. Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis, from 1837 to 1847. The work that was published by a nascent Smithsonian Institution was titled Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. [8]
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Three of the Sisters Olive Trees of Noah. The Sisters Olive Trees of Noah are a grove of sixteen olive trees in the Lebanese town of Bcheale. [1] According to local folklore, the trees are at least 5,000 years old, perhaps even 6,000 years old or older. [2] [3] If this is correct, they may be the oldest non-clonal living trees in the world.
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