What happens when a human being dies?

What happens when a human being dies is one of humanity’s oldest and most enduring questions. Long before modern medicine,

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• Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford
• Encyclopaedia Britannica: Descent of Inanna
• The British Museum: Mesopotamia collection and research
• BBC: A History of the World
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mesopotamia, 8000–2000 B.C.