Israel unearths ivory comb from 1700 BCE inscribed with plea to stop lice
‘May this [ivory] tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard’ is the first sentence written in the Canaanite language to be discovered at Tel Lachish.
The ivory comb.(photo credit: DAFNA GAZIT/ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY)ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICHUpdated: