In one instance, botanists at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Israel, managed to acquire some date seeds spanning back to Jesus' time.
They were found on an archaeological dig of Herod's palace in 1960 and were still able to produce fruit after some cross breeding.
Scientists at the Arava Institute have now managed to produce Methusaleh (above), a date palm tree producing fruit which shares 50% of its DNA with the dates that Jesus would have ate.
Methusaleh is a reference to the Biblical character of the same name, who is the oldest person on record ever to have lived. According to the book of Genesis he died aged 969.
Meanwhile an Israeli brewery has managed to brew a craft beer made from wheat from Jesus' time.
Herzl Brewery was donated the 2,000-year-old wheat by Tel Aviv University, and after growing the donated seeds it made five gallons of beer for private consumption.
Though wine was the staple alcoholic drink of Jesus' day, it's possible Jesus and the disciples will have also drank beer as it had already been imported by the Egyptians years before.
The brewery has said it has no plans to make more, saying the flavour would not work well on a commercial scale.
