Israel unearths ivory comb from 1700 BCE inscribed with plea to stop lice
Ancient Canaanites suffered from lice, pediculus humanus capitis, on their beards and not just on their heads as do young children in Israeli schools today. The first sentence ever written in their language from 1700 BCE appears on an ivory comb inscribed with a hopeful plea to wipe out the lice: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and…