The Oldest Sentence Written In World's First Alphabet

The oldest instance of a sentence written using the alphabet is on an inscription on an ancient ivory comb.

The small characters were only recently discovered by scientists after the fine-toothed object was discovered several years ago at Tel Lachish, an ancient Canaanite city in the foothills of central Israel. The seven scarcely legible words that are formed by the faint symbols together roughly translate to "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and …