There was also a depiction of a brightly colored chariot, four people, and a large dog.
Or maybe after 3000 years or so, the pigment just wore off somehow.
Irving Finkel is cool.
He handled Philomena Cunk pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmfdKxMyOIY
I hate 3500 year old Babylonian ghosts. You can’t understand a word they say.
The tablet warns, “Do not look behind you!” I bet that’s the oldest horror movie trope in history. Even back in ancient Mesopotamia, they knew the creepy feeling of Uncle Henry’s ghost photobombing your sunrise ritual!
Whatever you do, do not mis speak the words aloud.
😱
Zoinks!
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