Oldest Sentence

[Gregory Matthews]

In 2016, Southern Adventist University student Katherine Hesler was working on a team at Tel Lachish in Israel.  They discovered a comb which has been dated to about 1,700 B.C., by Dr. Edward Maher.  Madeleine Mumcuoglu's examination of the comb discovered the partial body of a louse. Her further examination discovered what she believed to be inscribed letters.  Daniel Vainstaub has concluded that there were actual Canaanite letters and which may be translated as:  "May this ivory (tusk) root out the lice from your hair and the beard."

 This is the oldest sentence known to exist, in the entire world.

 

The above information has been extracted from:  Hasel, Michael.  "The Oldest Sentence," Columns: The Magazine of Southern Adventist University, Spring 2025, Pages 16 & 17.

NOTE: Dr. Hasel, is a  PhD  Archaeologist.