Posted on 10/18/2021 2:50:43 AM PDT by blueplum
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 has been identified on an ancient Babylonian clay tablet created about 3,500 years ago.
It is part of an exorcist’s guide to getting rid of unwanted ghosts...
...As a world authority on cuneiform, a system of writing used in the ancient Middle East, Finkel realised that the tablet had been incorrectly deciphered previously. The drawing had been missed as the ghost only comes to life when viewed from above and under a light. Forgotten since its acquisition by the museum in the 19th century, the tablet has never even been exhibited....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
— Or, using fancy international-type words, spaghetti sketti.
HA! :)
—A nude ghost
have you ever seen a mummy with clothes?
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