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Scholars Have Decoded the World’s Oldest Sentence Written With an Alphabet. It’s a Highly Specific Warning… About Lice

[contentcards url=”https://news.artnet.com/art-world/worlds-oldest-alphabet-sentence-head-lice-warning-2208101″ target=”_blank”]  By Sarah Cascone The sentence was inscribed on an ancient ivory comb found at the Tel Lachish archaeological site in 2016. If…

In a Remarkable Find, Archaeologists Exploring the ‘Cave of Horror’ in Israel Have Discovered a New Dead Sea Scroll

[contentcards url=”https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-dead-sea-scroll-discovery-cave-horrors-1952209″] By Sarah Cascone They also discovered a partially mummified 6,000-year-old skeleton of a child. For the first time in 60 years, archaeologists have…