**** https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/this-is-the-worlds-oldest-image-of-a-ghost/

A curator exploring the shadowy recesses of the British Museum’s archives recently encountered a ghost—or rather, the world’s oldest image of one, etched onto a 3,500-year-old Babylonian clay tablet. The figure of a tall, emaciated spirit with his hands bound illustrates the text of an ancient exorcism ritual meant to banish the sort of ghost that “seizes hold of a person and pursues him and cannot be loosed.”

Wow cool

Ancient Babylonian #excorcism
#halloween #ghost #history