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The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator, by Irving Finkel

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The technique involved taking the four cuneiform signs used to write the word ‘baked brick’ and reinterpreting them using several philological tricks to produce two quite new interpretations beyond the literal meaning:
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The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
by Irving Finkel
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