Favorite beard goes ghostbusters Mesopotamian style
June 18, 2018 7:37 AM   Subscribe

Mesopotamian ghostbusting with Irving Finkel I Curator's Corner | The British Museum. Favorite beard is at it again with Sumerian tablets and ghostlies.
posted by zengargoyle (6 comments total) 12 users marked this as a favorite
 
And he quotes Tom Lehrer. Serious beard there.
posted by emmet at 8:04 AM on June 18, 2018 [1 favorite]


"... everybody believed in ghosts [...] it was a day-to-day thing that everybody took for granted. But also they weren't on the whole frightened of them, but rather, sympathetic. Because they thought [the ghosts] were troubled and they couldn't rest and they needed to be looked after."
That's very sweet.
posted by clew at 10:49 AM on June 18, 2018 [2 favorites]


I binged all the Irving Finkel content I could after another FPP with him - he's great. Thanks for posting!
posted by LobsterMitten at 6:08 PM on June 18, 2018


That was educational and entertaining! I would pay cash money for a series of lectures on Mesopotamia by Dr. Finkel.
posted by mogget at 6:15 PM on June 18, 2018


I enjoyed this! And now I know the British Museum has a lot of cool stuff on YouTube.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 6:35 PM on June 18, 2018


I have a secret wish that a couple of thousand years from now that that beard reincarnated will have a snort or a chuckle examining my little bit of detritus. It's almost a project.
posted by zengargoyle at 2:52 PM on June 19, 2018


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