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  • 3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet May Contain Earliest Known Depiction of a Ghost

    10/23/2025 10:01:51 AM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 32 replies
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/ ^ | October 22, 2021 | Livia Gershon
    The clay tablet is part of a guide to exorcising ghosts held in the collections of the British Museum, reports Dalya Alberge for the Observer. Irving Finkel, a curator in the London museum’s Middle Eastern department and the author of the forthcoming book The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies, says the image on the tablet is only visible when viewed from above under a light. The museum acquired the artifact in the 19th century, but it has never been exhibited.