our beliefs about afterlife have been recorded for thousand of years,but we have to keep in mind that these are all speculations,unitl we have the ability to resurrect,or bring back back the dead. 4 the egytians,beliefs about the transition from the mortal worl to eternal life were recorded thoughout the more than there thousand years of acient egypt's history,though new ideas were incorporated 4m time.most impotant for belief n the afterlife was the need 4 an individual's identity to be preserved.thus they egyptians started mummifying their deceased friends and family.. the final step in the transition to the afterlife was the judgment in the hall of maat(the god of justice)by horus(the god the sky)and thoth(scibe of the dead)by comparing ab(the conscience)n feather. the ritual was know as the weighing of the heart,,, heavy heart were swalloed by a creature with a crocodile head who was called the devourer of soul.the good people were led to the happy fields,where they joinedoiris,god of the underworld. mny spell and rituals were designed to ensure a favorable judgment n were written in the payrus or linen ''book of the dead'' aa ancient egypians believed in the afterlife and spent their lives preparing 4 it,,,, pharaohs built the finest tombs,collected the most elaborate funerary eguipment, n wre mummified in the most xpnsv way, other wre able to provide 4 their wealth,however,they all expected the afterlife to be an idealized version of their earthly existence, in ancient greek everyone generally feared death. the journey after death was to a land know as hades,ruled by a god nmed hades, the first part of the journey required crossing the river styx by being buried with a coin 4 the boatmn