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 ...
The comb is made of ivory and inscribed with the sentence: "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard." Credit: Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority The oldest sentence written in ...
The sentence was inscribed on an ancient ivory comb found at the Tel Lachish archaeological site in 2016. A picture taken at the conservation laboratory of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on ...
The oldest readable sentence written using the first alphabet has been found on the side of an ivory comb. The words are carefully inscribed in letters 1 to 3 millimetres wide and take the form of a ...
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