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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

lice

A 17th century BCE inscription in early Canaanite script from Lachish, incised on an ivory lice comb. (Daniel Vanstub)
November 9, 2022, 6:09 am
Ivory lice comb – a dating head-scratcher – may hold earliest Canaanite sentence
With a paucity of contemporary Bronze Age examples for comparison, scholars believe relatable 7-word inscription is first recorded complete proto-Canaanite sentence in Holy Land
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
American Veterans Archaeological Recovery co-founder Stephen Humphreys (right) at the Beth She'arim Excavation, August 2018. (courtesy)
December 26, 2018, 1:51 pm
6 archaeology stories from 2018 that made me rethink my world
Who knew? Archaeology is therapy; maybe a meteor destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; there are still new Dead Sea Scrolls treasures to decipher; and the mighty louse is a wonder
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Male human head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis. (Gilles San Martin, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)
September 25, 2018, 10:38 am
A bit player in human history, the mighty louse is important — and here to stay
From the migration of early hominids to Jewish rebels at Masada, the perfectly adapted parasite is a portal in time to shed light on even the smallest of mysteries
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Nehama the Louse, from the book of the same name by writer Meir Shalev, has become a beloved character in Israeli children's literature (Courtesy Am Oved)
September 1, 2017, 6:34 am
New school year renews quest for nit-picking
When it comes to lice, Israeli parents sigh, suffer and seek solutions
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: Israeli schoolchildren, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)
August 31, 2017, 11:40 am
Israeli startup seeks to make back-to-school gloom less lousy
Tel Aviv-based ParaSonic develops a device that zaps lice and nits with ultrasonic waves
By Shoshanna Solomon
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