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Discovered at the Ophel adjacent to the Temple Mount, seven letters on clay jar sherd are written in dialect and script stemming from the Arabian Peninsula, epigrapher suggests
What was the link between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba besides her testing his wisdom? A new Israeli study sheds light.
Yosef Garfinkel and Michael G. Hasel recently announced the discovery of an ivory lice comb bearing an early Canaanite inscription.
The inscription reads "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard." Archaeologists also found microscopic evidence of head lice on it.
The full sentence, possibly from 3,700 years ago, was found on a comb. The words read: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”