Throughout the Middle East, the versatile fruit has been revered since antiquity. How will it fare in a changing world?
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb | Language | The Guardian
It’s a simple sentence that captures the hopes and fears of modern-day parents as much as the bronze age Canaanite who owned the doubled-edged ivory comb on which the words appear.Believed to be the oldest known sentence written in the earliest alphabet, the inscription on the luxury item reads: “May this tusk root out the…