Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb containing possibly ... The sentence is dated to 1700 B.C., telling people to comb their hair and beards to get rid of lice.

A small ivory comb dating to about 1700 BCE was found with engraved with a hopeful spell against the wingless insect that like to infest human hair ... [Related: What ancient graves can teach ...

Israeli archeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some 3,700 ... The inscription encourages people to comb their hair and beards to rid themselves of lice. The sentence contains 17 ...

Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb dating ... of head lice on the comb. The inscription translates to: "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard." ...

By Oliver Whang The tiny ivory comb came from ancient ruins in central Israel and ... “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” “People kind of laugh when you tell them ...

Engraved into the side of a nearly 4,000-year-old ivory comb is a simple wish: Get these lice out of my hair. This faint inscription, written in the early language of the ancient Canaanites ...

Scientists just discovered the oldest known sentence written in this first alphabet on an ancient ivory ... from people’s hair and beards. Archaeologists excavated the comb in Israel in 2016 ...

Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some 3,700 ... The inscription encourages people to comb their hair and beards to rid themselves of lice. The sentence contains ...

Archaeologists from Israel have discovered an ancient comb that has ... The 3,700-year-old comb's inscription tells people to comb their hair and beards to get rid of lice, The Associated Press ...

Photo from the Museum of London Archaeology Archaeologists recently unearthed an ancient artifact in England that might make your hair stand on end: a comb made from a human skull. The macabre ...

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some ... The inscription encourages people to comb their hair and beards to rid themselves of lice.