#ghost

#ghost

Oldest Ever Drawing of a Ghost Discovered at the British MuseumA Babylonian clay tablet stored at the British Museum has revealed a previously overlooked image. A portion of the tablet appears blank, but there is a barely-discernible carving showing a man being led away by a woman who is holding his hands bound by a rope. The tablet is 3,500 years old, which makes this the oldest known drawing of a ghost ever. How do we know the man is supposed to be a ghost? Because the back of the tablet contains text that are instructions for how to get rid of a lonely ghost. See, the ghost is haunting the living because he is in need of female companionship. The ancient cuneiform writing lays out a ritual in which one would make figurines of the ghost and a woman and place them in a romantic setting with all the supplies for a night of earthly bliss.Dr. Irving Finkel of the British Museum lays out the story in his forthcoming book The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies. Get an overview of the story, including more details of the exorcism ritual at The Guardian. -via Strange Company#ghost #Babylon #cuneiform

Supermassive Black Holes Spawned Massive Cosmic "Dancing Ghosts"Astronomers from Western Sydney University and Australia's national science agency CSIRO have discovered a strange electron cloud deep in the universe the that looks like "two dancing ghosts."The strange cloud was discovered during a deep sky survey using CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope."When we first saw the 'dancing ghosts' we had no idea what they were," said lead researcher Ray Norris in a statement. "After weeks of work, we figured out we were seeing two 'host' galaxies, about a billion light years away. In their centers are two supermassive black holes, squirting out jets of electrons that are then bent into grotesque shapes by an intergalactic wind."Image: Western Sydney University#galaxy #blackhole #ghost #electroncloud #dancing #astronomy #radiotelescope