The Egyptians believed the after life was like heaven. They believed that in the afterlife you couldn't die. They thought that it was filled with happiness and joy.
It was the ancient egyptain belief that when you die you enter the afterlife. The afterlife was their version of heaven, their idea of life after death.
They believed that though their life would...
The Sumerians believed that there wasn't an afterlife, per say. After someone died, he became "a wisp of smoke in a house of dust that faded away after a few centuries."
Mesopotamian afterlife was a descent into a gloomy netherworld, occupied by the god of the underworld, Nergal.
Whereas, the Egyptians thought of the afterlife as a happy, place- a continuation of...