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, ...

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 ...

Several years ago, archaeologists unearthed a small ivory comb at Tel Lachish in Israel, once a major Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE. But it wasn’t until last December that someone ...

If you expected humankind's earliest scribes, when they first began writing with the alphabet, to record some kind of generational wisdom or an important message meant to be passed down through the ...

If you expected humankind's earliest scribes, when they first began writing with the alphabet, to record some kind of generational wisdom or an important message meant to be passed down through the ...

Believed to be the oldest known sentence written in the earliest alphabet, the inscription on the luxury item reads: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” Read Full Article » ...

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 ...

Timeless fret over hygiene picked out on engraved Bronze age comb from ancient kingdom of Judah It’s a simple sentence that captures the hopes and fears of modern-day parents as much as the bronze age ...

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 ...

From food getting stuck, to that awkward moment your shaver runs out of battery halfway through, there are downsides to having a beard. But if it makes you feel any better, the facial hair-related ...