Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

The Canaanite comb is inscribed with a warning for tiny lice—the oldest written sentence discovered in the language. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and ...

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Israeli archeologists 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 ...

Nov. 9 (UPI) --An ancient ivory comb with the first meaningful Canaanite inscription ever discovered in Israel has been found at Tel Lachish. Dated to 1700 BCE, the inscription confirms through ...

Carved into this ivory comb, dating to 1,700 B.C., is a sentence warding off lice that’s written in the early language of the ancient Canaanites, a new study finds.

Daphna Ben-Tor, a specialist in ancient amulets and seals, later verified that it was a Canaanite scarab dating back to the Middle Bronze Age.