Ancient wisdom: Oldest full sentence in first alphabet is about head lice
Briefly

Several years ago, archaeologists unearthed a small ivory comb at Tel Lachsich in Israel, once a major Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE.But it wasn't until last December that someone realized the comb had an inscription using early pictograph symbols of the first alphabet.Once deciphered, the inscription turned out to be a spell for preventing an infestation of head lice, according to a new paper published in the Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology.
Read at Ars Technica
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