No one wants head lice — not today and not 3,700 years ago, archaeologists in Israel discovered after deciphering a comb with the oldest alphabet’s first complete sentence.

In 1989 he and a colleague reported finding lice combs, dated to 1500 B.C. in caves in Israel. “I am sure that there could be more combs, older combs, in America,” Mumcuoglu says, “but we ...

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.

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This went on for six months until my mother-in-law suggested using old-fashioned Listerine on their hair. It kills the lice and makes it easier to comb out the nits.

Q. Friends have called in a panic about treating lice. Their 6-year-old daughter brought them home from summer camp. When I was a girl, my parents used kerosene, but I hated it. These folks are rel… ...

At first glance, 4-year-old Anna looked fine — save for the occasional itch. ... The best way to check if a child has lice is with a lice comb, Altschuler said.

3,700-year-old lice comb found with oldest alphabet’s first full sentence, experts say By Aspen Pflughoeft. November 09, 2022 10:39 AM.

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.