- 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, represents the earliest known instance of a complete sentence written using a phonetic alphabet. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/canaanite-comb-lice-israel-alphabet 12 comments science
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