3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet May Contain Earliest Known Depiction of a Ghost | Smart News
A curator at the British Museum details the spooky find in a new book
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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...