![]() ![]() "These characters suddenly walked out of a myth," Finkel said. ![]() Upon closer inspection, Finkel found the fine drawing, which is barely visible to the naked eye, and he identified the ghost and woman. ![]() ![]() Finkel knew that the tablet's cuneiform text - an ancient writing system from the Middle East - described a ghost ritual, but he didn't examine the tablet properly until he started conducting research for his new book: " The First Ghosts" (Hodder & Stoughton, 2021), which is being released on Nov. The tablet is small enough to fit in one hand, and at least half of it is missing. The tablets provide insight into what life was like in Babylon and the wider region, called Mesopotamia. The British Museum acquired the tablet in the 19th century, along with thousands of other tablets from Babylon, an ancient city about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Baghdad in modern-day Iraq.
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