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

by Irving Finkel

whenever graves included goods side by side with the deceased, we are entitled to assume an underlying belief that some part of that individual was believed to be going somewhere. The ‘somewhere’ framework, from its very inception, is inevitably predicated on the idea, hunch-like, sketchy or sharply visualised, of an afterlife.