The Canaanite lice comb is coming to the USA

EXHIBITION: Rare Inscribed Ivory Comb Artifact Coming To Southern Adventist University (Becky Brooks, Chattanooga Pulse).

In partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority and The Israel Museum, Southern Adventist University invites the public to see the ivory comb with the oldest deciphered complete alphabetic sentence in writing.

The rare object dating to 1700 BC and excavated in Israel will be on exhibit at the Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum in Hackman Hall on the university’s campus beginning on January 27.

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For the discovery of the Canaanite lice comb, see here (cf. here, and here).

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