What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife

by Robert Garland

An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death--and what we might learn from them

A lively story of death, What to Expect When You're Dead explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditions--Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, and Islamic. By drawing on the latest scholarship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691266174
• ISBN13: 9780691266176
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages