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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