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 ...

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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, ...

First sentence ever written in Canaanite language discovered: Plea to eradicate beard lice Hebrew University unearths ivory comb from 1700 BCE inscribed with plea to eradicate lice—"May this [ivory] ...

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. The comb was found ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...