![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/oldest-known-written-sentence-giving-head-lice-advice-is-discovered/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0_ISRAEL-ARCHAEOLOGY-LANGUAGE.jpg&description=A comb dating back 3,700 years has been found by Israeli archaeologists, which has the earliest known full sentence written in the Canaanite alphabet and gives advice about head liceAn ivory comb with what is the oldest known full sentence An ancient comb dating back 3,700 years ago has been found by Israeli archaeologists and bears what is likely the oldest known full sentence, about head lice. The inscription in the Canaanite alphabet encourages people to comb their hair and beards to rid themselves of lice. The sentence contains 17 letters that read: "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard." Experts say the discovery shines new light on some of humanity's earliest use of the Canaanite alphabet, invented around 1800 BC and the foundation of the all successive alphabetic systems, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin and Cyrillic. The topic suggests that people had trouble with lice in everyday life during the time - and archaeologists say they have even found microscopic evidence of head lice on the comb. The comb was found in Tel Lachish, an archaeological site in southern Israel ( AFP via Getty Images) The comb was first excavated in 2016 at Tel Lachish, an archaeological site in southern Israel, but it was only late last year when a professor at Israel's Hebrew University noticed the tiny words inscribed on it. Details of the find were published Wednesday in an article in the Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology and lead researcher, Hebrew University archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel, said that while many artefacts bearing the Canaanite script have been found, this is the first complete sentence to be discovered. Garfinkel said previous findings of just a few letters, maybe a word here and there, did not leave much room for further research on the lives on the Canaanites. "We didn't have enough material," he said. The find also opens up room for debate about the ancient era, Garfinkel added. The fact that the sentence was found on an ivory comb in the){kind=link}
A comb dating back 3,700 years has been found by Israeli archaeologists, which has the earliest known full sentence written in the Canaanite alphabet and gives advice about head lice
An ancient comb dating back 3,700 years ago has been found by Israeli archaeologists and bears what is likely the oldest known full sentence, about head lice.
The inscription in the Canaanite alphabet encourages people to comb their hair and beards to rid themselves of lice.
The sentence contains 17 letters that read: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”
Experts say the discovery shines new light on some of humanity’s earliest use of the Canaanite alphabet, invented around 1800 BC and the foundation of the all successive alphabetic systems, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin and Cyrillic.