Ever wanted to summon an ancient Mesopotamian ghost? For #Halloween this year, Curator Irving Finkel details his favourite 2,700-year-old magic ritual, inscribed in a cuneiform tablet from the Library of King Ashurbanipal. http://ow.ly/W7Y530gffAg | British Museum

The oldest map of the world in the world! 😲🌍 Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, when this tablet was initially discovered it was incomplete. However, our curator Irving Finkel and a particularly gifted student of his - Edith Horsley - managed to locate a missing piece of the map, and from there set us on journey through the somewhat mythical landscape of Mesopotamia to find the final resting place of the ark. That’s right – Noah's ark! (Although in the earlier

MAIN SOURCES ⬇️ A) “The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood” - Irving Finkel. B) “Spectroscopic study and simulations from recent structural models for eumelanin” - Patrick J Farmer, Klaus Stark, James Gallas, Garry Zajac. #chemistry #melanin #melaninmagic #rapping #freestyling | Rapperohm

What shape was Noah’s ark? How Dr Irving Finkel discovered the earliest account of the ancient Babylonian ‘Story of the Flood’ – closely related to the biblical account of Noah. The sixty-line passage not only provided the materials and measurements required to build the ark, it also suggested that the vessel was round. | British Museum