Researchers have unearthed a unique spell from the past that humans allegedly used to keep lice away. The terror of lice ...

But viewing the combs at 10 times normal size revealed their true purpose: Many still bore traces of the lice and nits they had extracted from someone’s tresses. In pre-Columbian times ...

An engraving on an ancient lice comb might be the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet. The doubled-edged ivory comb, which was excavated in Israel, bears an engraved inscription ...