The record for the oldest verified person belongs to Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122 years and 164 days old ...

In fact, it's home to the olive tree of Vouves, which is one of the oldest olive trees in the world -- potentially even the oldest. Anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 years old, it still bears fruit ...

Palestine holds some of the world's oldest olive trees ... 60-year-old Palestinian Mahfoza Oud cries and hugs her olive tree in the West Bank village of Salem after Israeli forces chopped them ...

Photo by Annette Hornischer / American Academy in Berlin 2019 01 25 Jared Farmer’s Elderflora is a fascinating history of the world’s oldest trees ... (cedar, olive, gingko, pipal, and baobab ...