Figures of Babylon: oldest drawing of a ghost found in British Museum vault

A 3,500-year-old image tablet of a miserable male ghost' gives up its secret

Its outlines are faint, only discernible at an angle, but the world's oldest drawing of a ghost has been discovered in the darkened vaults of the British Museum.

A lonely bearded spirit being led into the afterlife and eternal bliss by a lover has been identified on an ancient Babylonian clay tablet created about 3,500 years ago.