Even earlier in human history, the Egyptians believed that the human soul was immortal and that it could revisit its dead body. For this reason the Egyptians went to great lengths to preserve their dead by embalming, or mummifying, them.

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The “soul” of an Egyptian scribe, depicted as a human-headed hawk, supposedly ‘revisiting his body in the tomb’

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Courtesy of the British Museum, London