Angela Edwards
During the three months of the exhibit “The Ivory Comb: Lice and Literacy at Lachish,” Southern’s Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum had the highest number of visitors in the history of the museum, welcoming 2,451 guests.
Drawing more visitors in three months than any previous 12-month period in the 20-year history of the museum, February 2025 also broke the record for most visitors in a month in the museum’s history, with 796 visitors.
Throughout the duration of the exhibit, docents led 47 tours, including 13 school groups, six church groups, and three alumni events, among others.
Registered visitors came from across the country, including Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, and North Carolina.
Prominent archaeologists also visited Southern for the opening of the exhibit, including Yosef Garfinkel, Ph.D., professor emeritus of the Archaeology of Israel at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Madeleine Mumcuoglu, Ph.D., research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who discovered the inscription in 2022; and Daniel Vainstub, Ph.D., professor of Bible archaeology and Near East studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Southern Adventist University | November 2025
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