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 ...
I’m not buying it. Looks to me like a guy with his hands tied being led to the gallows...or wherever they take them when they’re going to execute someone.
There is writing on the tablet explaining that it is indeed a spirit.
So the lunatic/grifting ghost hunters have been around since when writing had been just invented. And here I thought whoring was the oldest profession. I stand corrected.
Fascinating.
Shamash!
[Is Jao Bai Den gone?
Who ya gonna call?
” lunatic/grifting ghost hunters have been around since when writing had been just invented. And here I thought whoring was the oldest profession.”
Who ya gonna call?
A professional... LOL
A nude ghost?
That’s Zack Bagans.
Nobody has.......................
PinGGGG!..............
Actually this is an mage of Joe iden trying to get out of the The White House, yes he has been around that long!
Thanks Red Badger.
Finkel is a hoot.
Interesting man.
Ya come into this world with nothing, ya leave with nothing...
Or...
You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing! - Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"
Looks like a prisoner to me, too.
Given how gloomy the Babylonia afterlife was, that makes sense, though.
Maybe he didn't pay his child support.
Something about slavery?
Maybe he is getting taken to the morgue lobby to receive his clot-shot?
I’m not buying it. Looks to me like a guy with his hands tied being led to the gallows...or wherever they take them when they’re going to execute someone.
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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.
*Tomato tahmata, potato pohtatah. Or, using fancy international-type words, spaghetti sketti.
Different ways of saying the same thing.
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