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

by Irving Finkel

We bring in Ashurbanipal, King of the World from 669 to 631 bc, to illustrate the point. Ashurbanipal: king of Assyria and the then known world; scholar, politician and warrior; the most exalted individual of the age and one of the great rulers of antiquity.