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“... maths and shared songs and baked bread. They also saw ghosts. In his new book, The First Ghosts, Irving Finkel, the curator in charge of the BM’s clay tablets (and the reason I dropped law to study cuneiform), discusses what these and other artefacts excavated from Mesopotamia tell us about supernatural apparitions and the ways they populated everyday ...”

“... collaboration and epiphany, or at least a particular quality of mind – what the Assyriologist Irving Finkel recently described as an ‘extra mental twist to your intellectual faculties to enable you to see where people haven’t seen the answer’. When I asked Desset what one required to decipher an ancient script he said all you really need is ...”