It’s the Halloween season, a time when we celebrate the macabre with decorations. And apparently humans have been doing so for way longer than we realized. A leading expert on Ancient Babylonian ...

"Do not look behind you." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A museum curator has discovered the oldest-known ghost drawing on a ...

A Babylonian tablet dating back to 1500 B.C.E. inscribed with instructions on how to perform an exorcism may depict one of the oldest images of a ghost in the world, according to a new book by British ...

The world’s oldest drawing of a ghost has been discovered on an ancient Babylonian tablet—and, just as in other timeless ghost stories like that 1995 Casper movie, it’s about a spirit whose sadness is ...

Irving Finkel, a senior curator in the Middle East at the British Museum, depicts a previously overlooked 'ghost figure' on a clay tablet in an ancient Babylonian tablet about 3,500 years ago in an ...

An ancient Babylonian drawing of a ghost thought to be 3,500 years old has been found in the British Museum. The artwork, pictured on a clay slate, shows a lonely ghost looking for a friend to keep ...

The tablet shows the love-lorn ghost bound and being led into the afterworld by his lover. The British Museum This could be the world’s oldest ghost story. A 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet at the ...