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Dr Irving Finkel, the man who discovered the world's first ghost, joined Dan Schreiber on the We Can Be Weirdos podcast.

New Delhi: Day three of the Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 began with a soulful performance by Rukmini Vijayakumar who commenced the Festival’s third day with calming early morning ragas and combined music, meditation and a celebration of the word s

Dr Irving Finkel, who will talk about his latest book as part of Jewish Book Week, tells Dan Carrier how cuneiform tablets were deciphered... and how we learned the ancient Babylonians weren’t that different to us

Dr Irving Finkel, who will talk about his latest book as part of Jewish Book Week, tells Dan Carrier how cuneiform tablets were deciphered... and how we learned the ancient Babylonians weren’t that different to us

Irving Finkel speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his new book, which transports us to ancient Mesopotamia to uncover the earliest written evidence of a belief in ghosts

A curator at the British Museum details the spooky find in a new book

A Babylonian tablet and other ghostly ancient objects and rituals are explored in a new book by the British Museum curator Irving Finkel.

A reinterpreted Babylonian tablet in the British Museum and its cuneiform script exorcism instructions have revealed the world’s oldest ghost image.

The bearded spirit being led into afterlife by a "lover" on 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet was identified by researchers after it had sat in the museum vaults

Its outlines are faint, only discernible at an angle, but the world's oldest drawing of a ghost has been discovered in the darkened vaults of the British Museum. A lonely bearded spirit being led into the afterlife and eternal bliss by a lover...