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... I have still never seen a ghost for myself, even in the shadier vaults of the British Museum, where the ancient dead can lie peacefully, and many… - Irving Finkel
" "... I have still never seen a ghost for myself, even in the shadier vaults of the British Museum, where the ancient dead can lie peacefully, and many of the living have witnessed strange things. Sometimes I have crouched immobile in the evening darkness at the top level of our Victorian Arched Room library, like a wildlife photographer at a waterhole, waiting in silence for a spectral figure who has, they say, more than once been observed. For me, though, no shady visitor.
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About Irving Finkel
(born 1951 in , ) is a British philologist, , author, and the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the .
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Irving Leonard Finkel
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Irving L. Finkel
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