Hebrew University unearths ivory comb from 1700 BCE
‘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.
Source: jpost.com
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‘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.
Ivory comb dating to 1700 BCE inscribed with plea to eradicate lice - Click the link for more details
Written on an ivory comb unearthed in 2017, the sentence comprises seven words—a spell against lice.
Ivory comb dating to 1700 BCE inscribed with spell to eradicate lice found at Tel Lachish; archeologist calls finding 'landmark in the history of the human ability to write'
Lice were never nice, not even in the Bronze Age.