{"id":2121,"date":"2024-09-06T20:41:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/archaeologists-discover-oldest-known-sentence-in-first-alphabet-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T20:41:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:41:52","slug":"archaeologists-discover-oldest-known-sentence-in-first-alphabet-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/archaeologists-discover-oldest-known-sentence-in-first-alphabet-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists discover oldest known sentence in first alphabet &#8211;\u00a0BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B8NHg82wbsk?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The oldest known sentence in the ancient language of Canaanites has been decoded by at team of Israeli archaeologists.<\/p>\n<p>The inscription was discovered on an ivory head-lice comb, unearthed at Tel Lachish, an ancient city in the Biblical Kingdom of Judah.<\/p>\n<p>Experts translated the comb to read: \u201cMay this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The landmark discovery provides evidence for the use of the alphabet 3,700 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Please subscribe HERE http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>#Language #History #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B8NHg82wbsk\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest known sentence in the ancient language of Canaanites has been decoded by at team of Israeli archaeologists. The inscription was discovered on an ivory head-lice comb, unearthed at Tel Lachish, an ancient city in the Biblical Kingdom of Judah. Experts translated the comb to read: \u201cMay this tusk root out the lice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,169,368],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}