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Canaanite ivory comb

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• ... that the Canaanite ivory comb that contains the earliest sentence in a phonetic alphabet was categorized as a miscellaneous artifact for five years before gaining significance as an important discovery?

• Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/science/ivory-comb-beard-lice.html

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• Comment: An image would be excellent for this entry. The images are there in the internet but I have been unable to find a suitable one that can be uploaded to commons with proper licensing. Please help me find/upload a picture for this artifact.

Created by Raydann (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

❯❯❯ Raydann^(Talk) 20:21, 9 November 2024 (UTC).

• Comment: So, between 2004 and 2010 or so, I did a lot of reading about artifacts like this. It turns out that it is extremely common for items like this to be set aside for years, decades, perhaps even a century or more, before someone comes along and decides to give them a second look. I only bring this up because while I like your hook, I could see others objecting to it as mundane. Viriditas (talk) 23:35, 10 November 2024 (UTC)