An ancient lice comb, believed to be from around 1700 BCE, has on it the oldest known sentence written in first alphabet.Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority An engraving on an ancient lice comb ...

Archaeologists from Israel have discovered an ancient comb that has what they believe is the oldest complete sentence written in Canaanite alphabetical script. The 3,700-year-old comb's inscription ...

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 ...

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An engraving on an ancient lice comb is potentially the oldest known sentence written using an alphabet. The ivory comb bears a sentence in an early Canaanite script, estimated to date back almost ...