Canaanite warriors in Egypt. The finds at Khalet al-Jam’a paint a picture of a prosperous, flourishing community. Lorenzo believes the city’s wealth was probably due to its strategic location ...

Nov. 9 (UPI) --An ancient ivory comb with the first meaningful Canaanite inscription ever discovered in Israel has been found at Tel Lachish. Dated to 1700 BCE, the inscription confirms through ...

Canaanite inscriptions, but not full sentences, have been found before. At Tel Lachish, archaeologists have found 10 inscriptions so far (including the comb), more than any other site in Israel.

The Canaanite comb is inscribed with a warning for tiny lice—the oldest written sentence discovered in the language. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and ...

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To date, 10 Canaanite inscriptions have been found in Lachish, more than at any other site in Israel. The city was the major center for the use and preservation of the alphabet during some 600 ...

A joint team of Israeli and U.S. researchers have discovered for the first time a complete sentence in the ancient Canaanite language. The ivory comb found at the Tel Lachish archaeological site ...

An engraving on an ancient lice comb is potentially the oldest known sentence written using an alphabet. The ivory comb bears a sentence in an early Canaanite script, estimated to date back almost ...

A rare inscription that sheds new light on the use of Canaanite language some 3,700 years ago has been discovered on an ivory comb in southern Israel, archaeologists said Wednesday.