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The island of Crete is one of the few remaining places in the world where one can still come across millennia-old olive trees-both singularly scattered and entire olive groves of them-and the only place with the world's oldest olive trees, resonant vestiges of the long-gone Minoan civilization. Not only are these ancient trees alive, they are still productive, offering people their invaluable gift over thousands of years.
