Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320963 Points: 35 # Comments: 7. Sometime in the early 1990s, Claudio Grossi, a 40-year-old farmer in Parma, in northern Italy, was cleaning his attic when he turned up an old sack full of seeds that he couldn’t identify. In a remarkable find, Claudio Grossi, an Italian farmer, unearthed an ancient wheat variety known as Triticum turgidum, which is believed to be over a century old.