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Oldest sentence in first known alphabet is a death threat to lice.
The sentence is not the oldest, but the oldest written in the first known alphabet. It appears on a head-lice comb some 3,700 years old and says, in its totality, “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” A testament to the millennia-long struggle betwixt human and nit.
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