Reviving a lost fruit 千年前蜜棗再生記

Dan Balilty for The New York Times

The harvest this month of the long-lost Judean dates at a kibbutz in Israel was hailed as a modern miracle of science. The honey-blond fruit was plucked from a tree that sprouted from a 2,000-year-old seed retrieved from an archaeological site in the Judean wilderness.

Our reporter recounted the work and determination of two women — a researcher on natural medicine and an expert on arid agriculture — to bring back the ancient dates.

這個久違的猶太時代的蜜棗，這個月在以色列一個基布茲有收穫了，這被譽為現代科學奇蹟。 這款蜜桃果實是從一棵樹--朱迪亞曠野的一個考古現場獲取的2000年曆史的種子中萌發--上摘下的。

我們的記者講述了兩位婦女的工作和決心，一位自然醫學研究人員和一位乾旱農業專家，帶回了古老的蜜棗。