Oldest written sentence found on a Canaanite nit comb

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/09/oldest-known-written-sentence-discovered-on-a-head-lice-comb

[Andreas Johansson]

Oldest sentence written in an alphabetic script, that is. The oldest sentences written in cuneiform and hieroglyphics are about a millennium older.

[Nick Harbud]

Very erudite slogan.  One might imagine they should have inscribed something more direct like "Die, filthy parasites!"

[Erpingham]

Very erudite slogan.  One might imagine they should have inscribed something more direct like "Die, filthy parasites!"

Oh, I remember sitting there, Derbac comb in one hand and squirming child in the other, saying just this.  Finds like this certainly humanise the past.