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3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet May Contain Earliest Known Depiction of a Ghost
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/ ^ | October 22, 2021 | Livia Gershon

Posted on 10/23/2025 10:01:51 AM PDT by Beowulf9

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To: SunkenCiv

I HOPE NOT!


21 posted on 10/23/2025 11:39:22 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

I wonder how the book is. Irving’s a lot of fun to listen to.


22 posted on 10/23/2025 12:03:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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23 posted on 10/23/2025 12:06:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Magnum44

“Money? What money? Running around in a ghost costume saying ‘Boo!’ Is fun! Boo! Ha-ha! Is there really a law against that?”


24 posted on 10/23/2025 12:29:30 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Was thinking the same but the hard cover is going for close to 90 dollars, I would get the soft cover version!

In reading about Rome one time, I forget where, I read Caligula, said by or to immediate family, maybe wife who was telling people who were going to visit his grave that he was a ghost, shrieking all about where he was buried. I wondered if that might be in his book.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1529303265?tag=smithsonianco-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1


25 posted on 10/23/2025 12:39:09 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SunkenCiv

Was Suetonius said it.

“Per the New York Times, the Roman historian Suetonius claimed that Caligula’s ghost remained behind to haunt the gardens”.

But I read it in The Twelve Caesars and there may have been more than that blurb.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/underground-gallery-showcase-caligulas-imperial-garden-180976745/


26 posted on 10/23/2025 12:46:07 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Zoinks!


27 posted on 10/23/2025 1:14:33 PM PDT by week 71
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To: Beowulf9

Adding to this the brief story of Caligula’s ghost, reported by the Roman historian, Suetonius who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire:

“LIX. He (Caligula) lived twenty-nine years, and reigned three years, ten months, and eight days. His body was carried privately into the Lamian Gardens, where it was half burnt upon a pile hastily raised, and then had some earth carelessly thrown over it. It was afterwards disinterred by his sisters, on their return from banishment, burnt to ashes, and buried. Before this was done, it is well known that the keepers of the gardens were greatly disturbed by apparitions; and that not a night passed without some terrible alarm or other in the house where he was slain, until it was destroyed by fire”.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6400/6400-h/6400-h.htm#link2H_4_0005


28 posted on 10/23/2025 2:01:10 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

> Was Suetonius said it.

I think I graduated with Sue.


29 posted on 10/23/2025 7:36:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ah, the good ol’ days. 😆


30 posted on 10/23/2025 8:15:06 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9; tumblindice

I myself am glad I can’t read Babylonian words. I wouldn’t want to unleash a Ghostbusters extinction event.

“ Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words?
Ash: Yeah, basically.
Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words?
Ash: Look, maybe I didn’t say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.


31 posted on 10/23/2025 9:08:56 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

:”The Babylonian tablet featured in the new book focuses specifically on removing an older male ghost by having a young woman lead him to the underworld”.

i’d like to know:

1. How does the ‘young woman’ know the way to the underworld?

2. Why do they expect some young girl to take this old guy back?

3. How do they know she can MAKE it back?

4. Like someone else said, ‘where do you get a rope to hold a ghost’?


32 posted on 10/23/2025 9:21:02 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

You got some valid questions there.

And since the author of those tablets is now a ghost themselves, we’ll never find out.

🤔


33 posted on 10/24/2025 5:57:45 AM PDT by Redcitizen
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