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World’s ‘oldest written sentence’ discovered on headlice comb
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe first ever sentence from 3,700 years ago, a plea to remove hair lice, has been discovered etched...
Hikers stumble upon ‘rare’ 2,500-year-old item — and thought it was ‘elaborate prank’
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoOut for a weekend hike at a park in Israel, a pair of friends stumbled upon a small piece of ancient...
Israel archaeologists find ancient comb with 'full sentence'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIsraeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some 3,700 years ago and bearing what...
First Sentence Ever Found in Ancient Alphabet, and It's About Beard Lice
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 years agoArchaeologists in Israel say they have found the first-known written sentence in Canaanite, an...
'Root out the lice!' Ancient ivory comb contains oldest written Canaanite sentence
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the popular game show 25 Words or Less (now streaming on Peacock!), and the board game of the...
Archaeologists in Israel left red-faced after it transpired that a unique 'ancient' inscription was...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Darius inscription, which was announced as inauthentic on FridayShai Halevi/ Israel Antiquities...
On This Day, Nov. 9: Great Boston Fire kills 30
United Press International via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOn Nov. 9, 1872, a fire which began in the basement of a warehouse in downtown Boston raged for 12 hours, consuming 65 acres and leaving 776 buildings in...
Signs of Salome, said to be nurse to baby Jesus, unearthed in Israel
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoExcavations of a cave reputed to be the burial place of Salome, said in non-canonical scripture to...
Israel says inscription in Persian pottery shard inauthentic
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIsrael acknowledged on Friday that an inscription in clay found in the country's south bearing the name of Darius the Great, ruler of the ancient Persian Empire, was not authentic. The shard ...
An engraving on an ancient ivory lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in the first...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn ancient lice comb, believed to be from around 1700 BCE, has on it the oldest known sentence...