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 in ...

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Two ancient clay tablets discovered in Iraq and covered from top to bottom in cuneiform writing contain details of a "lost" Canaanite language that has remarkable similarities with ancient Hebrew. The ...

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 say. It is the first sentence of ...

‘May this [ivory] tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard’ is the first sentence written in the Canaanite language to be discovered at Tel Lachish. Ancient Canaanites suffered from lice, ...

The alphabet was invented around 1800 BCE and was used by the Canaanites and later by most other languages in the world. Until recently, no meaningful Canaanite inscriptions had been discovered in the ...

“This is the first sentence ever found in the Canaanite language in Israel. There are Canaanites in Ugarit in Syria, but they write in a different script, not the alphabet that is used till today. The ...

Tel Lachish (Israel) (AFP) – 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 ...

One of the earliest sentences written using an alphabet was about trying to rid one’s self against lice (Credit: Dafna Gazit/ Israel Antiquities Authority) The first ever sentence in Canaanite from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tablets were found in Iraq about 30 years ago. Scholars started studying them in 2016 and discovered they contain details in ...

Researchers have unearthed an ivory comb from 1700 BCE inscribed with a plea to eradicate lice. The finding provides direct evidence for the use of the Canaanite alphabet in daily activities some 3700 ...