But one, a behemoth measuring roughly 14 feet in diameter, is more than 1,100 years old. That’s the oldest olive tree in the world, the team reported last month in the journal Dendrochronologia.

Pick your own ancient olive tree to transplant to your garden Spend a weekend in wine country at the Mount family’s private guesthouse sampling nearby vineyards Enjoy a year’s supply of ...

Richard T. Nowitz/Corbis. The al Badawi olive tree in Bethlehem, which researchers peg to somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 years old, is likely the oldest living olive tree in the world.Though ...

Nestled in Crete, Greece, the Olive Tree of Vouves is one of the oldest living olive trees, estimated to be between 2,000 and 4,000 years old.

An olive tree more than 200 years old grown near Nazareth was sent as a gift from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Pope Benedict XVI.

Architect John K. Chan designs a modern addition for a family of four that connects them to the Ivanhoe Reservoir in Silver Lake and saves a massive olive tree.