Methuselah, a Bristlecone Pine tree (Pinus aristata) growing in California is thought to be the oldest living object in the world. It is nearly inconceivable that the bristlecone pine named Methuselah, still alive, emerged from its seed 1,000 years before Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt, and that it was "old" when Columbus arrived in the Americans. - Millet