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 ...

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 ...

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The Canannites invented the first alphabet about 3,800 years ago. The letters, instead of hieroglyphics like those used in Egypt, became the basis for written Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. English, ...

In the popular game show 25 Words or Less (now streaming on Peacock!), and the board game of the same name, contestants compete to communicate five target words to their teammates using as few clue ...

Archaeologists at Tel Lachish found an elephant ivory comb with wishful inscription, the oldest complete sentence in the earliest alphabet. Photo from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem No one wants ...

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 ...

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 ...

A seven-word inscription discovered by accident on a 3,700-year-old lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet, according to a new study. The inscription written on the ivory comb ...