Herodotus, a Greek historian of the fifth century B.C.E., said that the Egyptians were “the first of mankind who have defended the immortality of the soul. ”
यासोबतच, आणखीन एका प्राचीन संस्कृतीने म्हणजेच, बाबेलच्या संस्कृतीनेही अमर आत्म्याची शिकवण स्वीकारली.