Lachish

The comb was found in the ruins of a city called Tel Lachish.

Tel Lachish was an important city to an ancient people known as the Canaanites.

The unnamed expert, part of a foreign expedition last summer to the Tel Lachish archaeological site, told officials that she had scratched the words into pottery as a demonstration while explaining to students how artifacts were historically inscribed.

The artifact had been in storage since 2016, when it was collected from the ruins of the ancient city of Tel Lachish.

But the Tel Lachish comb was found in a much later archaeological context, and carbon dating failed to determine its exact age, the article notes.