| If you think that the head lice comb is a modern | | | | found in the wreckage of a sunken ship near the |
| invention, well think twice. For centuries and even | | | | Turkish coast. The same combs, made of the same |
| thousands of years people have had head lice and | | | | wood were found in Russia. This means that the trade |
| they have been using them since the beginning of | | | | of these anti lice combs happened on a large scale. A |
| times. There is evidence of this all over the world, and | | | | comb in walrus ivory, consisting of 2 sides (tiny teeth, |
| here is a brief history of lice combs. | | | | and coarse teeth) was also found during this period. It |
| It is estimated that the emergence of head lice combs | | | | is currently at the British Museum in London. |
| coincides with the invention of the regular comb, about | | | | One more comb with fine teeth was found in the |
| 9 500-12 500 BC. The oldest combs were made of | | | | wreckage of the boat Culip IV, sank in the late 13th |
| bone and ivory, or wood. Combs were discovered | | | | century in Catalonia (now Spain). This boat used to |
| among the objects left in tombs belonging to the first | | | | trade with North Africa, its main cargo consisted of |
| Egyptian dynasty (3150 BC). In 3000 BC. head lice | | | | ceramic and hazelnuts. The ship of King Henry VIII, the |
| combs with very fine and tightened teeth were found | | | | Mary Rose was built between the year 1509 and year |
| in Egyptian tombs. Hundreds of tombs dating from the | | | | 1511, then sank in 1545. He was found and brought to |
| period from 3000 to 2000 BC. have been found in | | | | the surface in 1982, and among the objects that were |
| Iberia (now Spain), containing items and among them | | | | still on board we could find head lice combs with very |
| many ivory combs. In the 6th century BC. a carved | | | | fine teeth, made of wood. |
| ivory lice comb dating from the Persian period was | | | | Several combs with very fine teeth were found in the |
| found in Israel. | | | | wreckage of the Spanish boat to Bermuda Stone |
| Between the 1st century BC. And the 2nd century AD | | | | Wall, sank in the middle of the 17th century. In the 18th |
| there were several more discoveries. A wooden | | | | century a head lice comb made of bone and some |
| comb from this period was found in the Negev desert, | | | | human hair were found in a pit at Canterbury (England). |
| it contained 10 adult lice and 5 dried nits. Another | | | | From the 18th century, head lice combs became very |
| wooden comb from the same period was found in | | | | popular and we can find combs dating from this period |
| Northern England and contained fragments of lice. In | | | | in many parts of the globe, very often. Nowadays |
| Germany also during the same period, near Rotterdam, | | | | such a comb is made of metal or other materials and |
| a wooden comb with very thin teeth covered with | | | | it remains the essential tool in everyone's battle against |
| mud deposits containing lice was discovered. | | | | head lice. |
| In the 11th century several combs with fine teeth were | | | | |