Taking ghosts for granted in daily life and interacting with them was to be ever after a characteristic shared with peoples and nations round about the world, ancient into modern; it is precisely that which makes documentation of the ghost-belief system in ancient Mesopotamia over four thousand years ago so vital and significant. It is astonishing, in fact, how familiar the long-dead of archaeology emerge to us in this regard. The cynical process of second-guessing the meaning of evidence from antiquity serves no one; my conviction is that the voices that cried out about their ghosts, argued
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