The oldest known written phrase denounces head and beard lice.
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The first sentence recorded in the world’s first alphabet explains a problem that humans still face today: head lice. The words “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard” is carved onto a little ivory comb. The comb, discovered in Lachish, a Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE and […]