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I find a strange certainty in the stomach theory repeated all around the article.

Why in the stomach? How can they discard that the fig was in a pocket or a bag or was just planted by somebody later to mark the area?

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I agree. This sounds like a publicity ploy. According to Wikipedia "Ficus carica is dispersed by birds and mammals that scatter their seeds in droppings." How do they know that the seed was not brought there by a bird? Did they check the age of the tree? Does it match the date of the incident? I wrote to CMP http://www.cmp-cyprus.org/ let's if they answer. I could not find a press release on their site about this subject.

Good point. It's more fascinating though to connect this tree, which is still living, with this long-dead man whether it's true or not.

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