What a fun and intelligent conversation I had with Irving Finkel, PhD, Senior Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages, and culture at The British Museum on the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel about “Ancient Magic Rituals.” He says the ancients used magic for primarily benevolent reasons. He is one of the few people in the world who can read ancient cuneiform writing on tablets of clay. Watch or listen to interview here: Irving Finkel, PhD, is Senior Assistant Keeper of ancient Mesopotamian script, languages, and cultures at the British Museum. He is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia, of which the…