Cedars of Lebanon - Oldest Multimillenary Cedar Trees

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Cedars of Lebanon Multimillenary 2,000 years old

The oldest Cedar Trees are in a grove in Becharri, Northern Lebanon. These
trees are between 1000 and 2000 years old, making them some of the oldert trees on earth

Cedar of Lebanon - 1500-year-old cedar tree

Cedar of Lebanon - Very Old Tree

2000-year-old Cedar of Lebanon tree at the entrance of the grove in Becharri

Closeup of the old Cedar Tree with a massive trunk - Just enormous!!!

What was happening in the world while these trees were alive?
These trees were alive and growing way back when history was being written.
Below is a history timeline. These cedars, kings of the mountain, were alive during those events.

73 BC	Spartacus leads a slave's rebellion
63 BC	Roman invasion of Judea (Pompey)
55 BC	Julius Caesar attempts invasion of Britain
54 BC	Crassus plunders the Temple at Jerusalem
54 BC	Julius Caesar fails to invade Britain
46 BC	Julian Calendar standardized
44 BC	Gaius Julius Caesar assassinated (March 15th)
41 BC	Cleopatra sails into Tarsus to meet Mark Antony
37 BC	Herod the Great, ruler of Judaea
31 BC	Cleopatra and Mark Anthony die
20 BC	Philo Judaeus born, Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher
19 BC	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) died
11 BC	Halley's comet appears again
7 BC	Jesus Born
4 BC	Herod the Great dies at Jericho

Ist Century AD
	Arminius defeats Romans in battle, in the Teutoburg Forest
	'Augustus' Gaius Julius Octavius died
	Pliny the Elder born
	John the Baptist beheaded by Herod Antipas (Salome)
	Crucifixion of Jesus
	Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula) becomes Roman Emperor
	Emperor Claudius invades England
	Fire ravages Library at Alexandria
	Boudicca (Boadicea) revolts against Romans
	Roman Emperor Nero persecutes Christians
70 AD	Herod's Temple at Jerusalem destroyed
	Vesuvius volcano destroys Pompeii Italy
	Josephus writes his Jewish Antiquities

2nd Century AD
100 AD	Christians using variants of the Didache
	Ignatius of Antioch died
126 AD	The 3rd version of the Pantheon, Rome, completed

4th Century AD
325 AD	Council of Nicaea establishes Christian dogma

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