Show palm sacred to egyptians the date palm tree la is a sacred thing for thousands ot of years it has bus been to the fellahs fellars and to the nomads of africa the tree of life and the tree of death its dates are so eo nourishing that with frugal races they are a principal article of food upon its transparent bark was written in ancient hieroglyphics the first awakening of human thought its ita wood provided colllns for the old egypt tian tombs its essences perfumed the tha wrappings of mummies |