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, ...

Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb containing possibly the oldest known sentence in the Canaanite alphabet, a language that spawned modern language systems, such as Arabic and Hebrew.

An engraving on an ancient lice comb might be the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet. The doubled-edged ivory comb, which was excavated in Israel, bears an engraved inscription ...

A small ivory comb was found at an archaeological site in Israel.It is less than 4 centimeters wide, and its teeth are broken ...

Archaeologists in Israel say they have found the first-known written sentence in Canaanite, an alphabet used by the long-ago inhabitants of the region and until now lost to time. The ...

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 from ...