Irving Finkel
First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
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The First Ghosts is a fascinating book that mixes scholarly with accessible and places storytelling at the heart of the human experience. It uncovers an extraordinarily rich seam of ancient spirit wisdom that has remained hidden for nearly 4000 years, covering practical details of how to live with ghosts, how to get rid of them, and how to avoid becoming one.
Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 11 November 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
A fascinating journey
Yorkshire Post
The book is a delight to read: each chapter is as academically astute as you would expect from this author, but delivered with a light touch and entertaining writing style that sweeps the reader through the pages.
Archaeology Worldwide
In The First Ghosts, he has found the perfect medium for bringing the ancient Mesopotamians back from the dead... Despite the morbid theme and remote cultural milieu, this is not a somber book. One does not have to share Finkel's empathy for these subjects, both ghostly and Mesopotamian, to be entertained and enlightened by The First Ghosts.
TLS
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 that dates back to 3400 BC, 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 s.
Weight: 604g
Dimension: 308 x 246 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529303261
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