The comb is about one inch long by 0.9 inches wide and has teeth on both sides that were likely used to remove lice and their eggs from hair, similar to the two-sided lice combs still used today.

The sentence is dated to 1700 B.C., telling people to comb their hair and beards to get rid of lice. It translates to, “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard,” according to ...

Engraved into the side of a nearly 4,000-year-old ivory comb is a simple wish: Get these lice out of my hair. This faint inscription, written in the early language of the ancient Canaanites ...