The tree, called Prometheus, took root at the dawn of the Bronze Age, centuries before the ancient Egyptians began construction on the pyramids at Giza. It outlasted the rise and fall of the Roman ...

A number of readers wrote in over the course of the day to ask how and why the tree had been cut down and what the scientific purpose had been. The story is an interesting one. Prometheus was cut ...

The family who donates the tree receives a replacement or other form of greenery. Once installed above Prometheus statue, the tree will be covered in over 50,000 multi-colored LEDs and topped with ...

The only certainty is that Currey did have permission to cut down what was discovered to be the oldest tree on record. Now known as Prometheus, the tree was found to be nearly 5,000 years old.

Creation isn’t just what Prometheus was going to be about ... comment on the folly of this mission. It’s a weird family tree that the movie constructs as the end of the movie gives birth ...