World's oldest drawing of ghost discovered on Babylonian tablet - report
The drawing is approximately 3,500-years-old and presents a male ghost with his hands tied by a rope. He is led by a woman.
Cuneiform tablet detailing the daily life of exiled
Jews in ancinet Babylon (modern-day Iraq) 2,500 years ago, displayed at
the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem (photo credit: REUTERS)
The world's oldest drawing of a ghost has been discovered in the British Museum, The Guardian reported on Saturday.
The drawing has been identified on an ancient tablet from Babylonia that was constructed approximately 3,500 years ago.
The drawing presents a male ghost with his hands tied by a rope and
is being led by a woman pulling the rope. It is said to be a guide to
getting rid of unwanted ghosts by acknowledging what brought them back
to the living world, which is shown here as a ghost searching for a
partner.
Half of
the tablet is reportedly missing, according to the report, and the other
half is said to be small enough to fit in a human palm. On the other
side of the tablet, contains instructions of what to do should a ghost
continue to pursue any individual, which requires making figurines of a
man and woman.
Two years ago, researchers from the University of North Carolina said that they found evidence
pointing to the validity of the Babylonian Conquest of Jerusalem in
587/586 BCE which included their discovery of arrowheads from that era,
Iron Age potsherds and jewelry.
This
is one of the Scythian type arrowheads found in the destruction layer
from 587/586 BCE (credit: MT ZION ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION/VIRGINIA
WITHERS)
In July, archaeologists reportedly found a section of Jerusalem’s city wall
that was destroyed by the Babylonians in that conquest and also
discovered multiple artifacts that offer a glimpse into the daily life
of Jerusalem when the wall was still standing, which include fragments
of pots and pans.
Rossella Tercatin and Zachary Keyser contributed to this report.
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