Month: December 2022

Nit Comb

This is a sentence using letters from my new alphabet which I created using Google Slides:

An ancient 3,700 year old comb was found with writing on the side of it in 2021 using letters of the world’s first alphabet leading to our modern alphabet. The writing on the side of the comb talks about getting rid of lice.

The nit comb was found in the ruins of an ancient city called “Tel Lachish.” The people who lived in Tel Lachish are called Canaanites. The Canaanites created their own alphabet which uses letters that make sounds instead of drawing symbols for ideas.

The nit comb is made out of ivory from an elephant’s tusk, but no elephants lived in the area so the owner of the comb must have been rich. Some of the teeth from the nit comb have been broken off, but you can still see where the teeth were.

On one side there are 6 large teeth used for untangling hair. On the other side there are 14 smaller teeth which were used for removing lice and their eggs (but I think they must have struggled just a bit.)