The First Ghost Stories

Dr. Irving Finkel

Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Script, The British Museum

Cosponsored by the Iraqi American Community, Houston.

Who needs a broom when you’ve got Zoom!  Courtesy of digital hocus pocus, Irving Finkel returns to Houston. 

Learn how the near-universal belief in ghosts goes back to the beginning of time.  Discover how the oldest known writing, in cuneiform script on tablets of clay, gives us a full picture of the ancient Mesopotamian ghost experience: who might be expected to be a ghost,  how to keep the dead happy in the netherworld, how to banish annoying ghosts that keep appearing and how to summon the dead to come back and disclose the future.  No one need be frightened.  At least  not much.  And there will be plenty of time for questions!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2020  3:00 PM

To participate in this free Zoom session, no need to click your heels.  Simply click this link that will take you directly to the talk:  https://youtu.be/vHUNNVG3pbk