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 ...

The world’s oldest drawing of a ghost has been discovered on an ancient Babylonian tablet—and, just as in other timeless ghost stories like that 1995 Casper movie, it’s about a spirit whose sadness is ...

It’s the Halloween season, a time when we celebrate the macabre with decorations. And apparently humans have been doing so for way longer than we realized. A leading expert on Ancient Babylonian ...

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 ...

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 ...

The oldest known drawing of a ghost was recently discovered after being looked over for years. The drawing was unearthed in one of the British Museum’s vaults, and features the spirit of a Babylonian ...