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Archaeologist found a 3,700-year-old ivory comb with an interesting inscription in southern Israel. Read on to know what the lice remover spell means.

Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some 3,700 years ago and bearing what is likely the oldest known full sentence in Canaanite alphabetical script, according to an article published Wednesday.

'This is a landmark in the history of the human ability to write,' commented Hebrew University Professor Yosef Garfinkel.

‘May this [ivory] tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard’ is the first sentence written in the Canaanite language to be discovered at Tel Lachish.

Israeli archeologists say they have found an ancient comb dating back to Canaanite times and bearing what is likely the oldest known full sentence in an alphabetical script

The early adopters of the alphabet cared about their personal hygiene, judging by the inscription on the side of an ancient ivory comb

Ivory comb dating to 1700 BCE inscribed with plea to eradicate lice - Click the link for more details

The Canaanite comb bears the earliest known instance of a complete sentence written in a phonetic alphabet, researchers say.

The comb was excavated from Tel Lachish in Israel in 2017 but the letters were only noticed earlier this year by an archaeologist.

Timeless fret over hygiene picked out on engraved Bronze age comb from ancient kingdom of Judah