Why research the roots of prevailing afterlife believes in the Iranian religion?
Much of the earlier scholarship devoted to eschatology and apocalypticism concerns the origins of eschatology within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Of course we find a belief in afterlife on another plane of existence in most known cultures, from Asia, Europe, and Africa to the Americas. In all these places, the question of what is meant by a life in Heaven or in Hell has given rise to impassioned discussion from ancient times. The Egyptians, with over 5,000 years of history, had vibrant beliefs in a splendid life after death, and we can read of their perceptions of Heaven and Hell in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Likewise, the Mesopotamians held that the soul of the deceased would continue its existence in an underground world. However, most of the eschatological and apocalyptic philosophers of monotheistic faiths hold fast to a literal reading of what they consider to be godly revelations about the end of the world and its accompanying rewards and punishments. These include a for
