Unearthed comb in Israel from 1700 BCE inscribed with plea to stop lice

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"... The alphabet was invented around a century before and was used by the Canaanites and later included in most other languages in the world. Until recently, no meaningful Canaanite inscriptions had been discovered in the Land of Israel, except for two or three words here and there. ..."

Israel unearths comb from 1700 BCE inscribed with plea to stop lice - The Jerusalem Post ‘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.