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> Title a bit clickbait. > Not clear when inscribed, so 3700 years ago is erroneous.

I don't know how accurate the date is, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily entirely unclear when it was inscribed just because a sample couldn't be dated. They should be able to make some reasonable guesses by successfully dating other artifacts found at the same site/depth or based on when people would have known about and used the alphabet found on the comb. If ~3,700 years is the best guess based on the available evidence we have is it really clickbait?

Some quotes from another article linked in the first article:

"It came from a level of the site dating back roughly 2700 years but from the style of the writing engraved on the comb, Garfinkel’s team argues this particular artefact is about 1000 years older."

"It isn’t even clear exactly when the alphabet was invented: Many researchers argue for a date around 3800 years ago, but there is some evidence the alphabet was in use as early as 4300 years ago."

"The previous oldest known sentence is about 400 years younger than the one on the comb."