Irving Finkel, a senior curator in the Middle East at the British Museum, depicts a previously overlooked 'ghost figure' on a clay tablet in an ancient Babylonian tablet about 3,500 years ago in an ...
A lonely spirit being led to eternal bliss by a lover on a Babylonian clay tablet. White line tracing © James Fraser and Chris Cobb for The First Ghosts, by Irving ...
Ghost Song caught our eye way back in 2013 when developer Old Moon launched a Kickstarter for the project, then titled Ghost Song: A Journey of Hope. Fast forward nine years later, and publisher ...
The tablet shows the love-lorn ghost bound and being led into the afterworld by his lover. The British Museum This could be the world’s oldest ghost story. A 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet at the ...