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| Photograph: Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority |
It appears that lice have always plagued humans, even the wealthy. 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.”
It was found in Lachish, a leading Canaanite city state in the second millennium BCE.
Read more: The Guardian
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