Burials discovered in Germany found to be full of high-end items that reflected the class of its owners and their personal ...

A small ivory comb dating to about 1700 BCE was found with engraved with a hopeful spell against the wingless insect that like to infest human hair. The inscription reads, “May this [ivory] tusk ...

Archaeologists in Israel unearthed a tiny ivory comb inscribed with the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet that evolved into one we use today. By Oliver Whang The tiny ivory comb came ...

Several years ago, archaeologists unearthed a small ivory comb at Tel Lachish in Israel, once a major Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE. But it wasn't until last December that ...

The fact that the sentence was found on an ivory comb in the ancient city's palace and temple district, coupled with the mentioning of the beard, could indicate that only wealthy men were able to ...

The comb dates to 1,700 BC and measures roughly 3.5 by 2.5 centimeters, carved from a single piece of ivory. On one side, there is an inscription made of 17 Canaanite letters. The inscription ...

It is engraved on a small ivory comb and includes a wish against lice. “The find cannot be overestimated. The invention of the alphabet was the most important contribution to communication in ...

Archaeologists at Tel Lachish found an elephant ivory comb with wishful inscription, the oldest complete sentence in the earliest alphabet. Photo from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem No one ...

It is engraved on a small ivory comb and includes a spell against lice. The letters of the inscription were engraved in a very shallow manner. It was excavated in 2017 but the letters were noticed ...

The first sentence ever written in their language from 1700 BCE appears on an ivory comb inscribed with a hopeful plea to wipe out the lice: “May this [ivory] tusk root out the lice of the hair ...

Engraved into the side of a nearly 4,000-year-old ivory comb is a simple wish: Get these lice out of my hair. This faint inscription, written in the early language of the ancient Canaanites ...