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The First Ghosts - A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator (Paperback)
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The First Ghosts - A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator (Paperback)
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Loot Price R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible
and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human
experience.' - History Revealed 'A fascinating journey' - Yorkshire
Post 'Marvellous...Finkel is an expert in Mesopotamian cultures at
the British Museum, and is one of the most clever, and nicest, of
people it has ever been my pleasure to encounter...A fascinating
journey' - The Scotsman There are few things more in common across
cultures than the belief in ghosts. Ghosts inhabit something of the
very essence of what it is to be human. Whether we personally
'believe' or not, we are all aware of ghosts and the rich
mythologies and rituals surrounding them. They have inspired,
fascinated and frightened us for centuries - yet most of us are
only familiar with the vengeful apparitions of Shakespeare, or the
ghastly spectres haunting the pages of 19th century gothic
literature. But their origins are much, much older... The First
Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies takes us back to the very
beginning. A world-renowned authority on cuneiform, the form of
writing on clay tablets which dates back to 3400BC, Irving Finkel
has embarked upon an ancient ghost hunt, scouring these tablets to
unlock the secrets of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians to
breathe new life into the first ghost stories ever written. In The
First Ghosts, he uncovers an extraordinarily rich seam of ancient
spirit wisdom which has remained hidden for nearly 4000 years,
covering practical details of how to live with ghosts, how to get
rid of them and bring them back, and how to avoid becoming one, as
well as exploring more philosophical questions: what are ghosts,
why does the idea of them remain so powerful despite the lack of
concrete evidence, and what do they tell us about being human?
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