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The first ghost stories

Where
Chau Chak Wing Museum
Chau Chak Wing Museum
University Place, University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2006
When

Friday 31 October from 1pm to 2pm

Celebrate Halloween with the OG ghosts stories from the ancient Near East!

From the time of our earliest written records, ghosts, demons, and monsters have haunted the human imagination. This Halloween, join us at the Chau Chak Wing Museum as we discuss the ancient ghost stories from Mesopotamia.

From evaluating different types of ghosts, to protecting children from wind demons, to ancient rituals for ghostbusting, we explore the things that went bump in the night 5,000 years ago, to discover the familiar shape of the world’s first ghost stories.

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