The realms of the dead of the ancient Near East: the Egyptian Duat and its Hall of Two Truths and the Mesopotamian Irkalla. A realm belongs here when its cited article describes an Egyptian or Mesopotamian land of the dead. It excludes Greek and Biblical underworlds. Examples in the atlas include Duat, The Hall of Two Truths and Irkalla. Both are described in funerary or literary texts that guide the dead through the realm, which is why they sit together.
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Duat (Wikipedia)
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The Duat or Tuat (Ancient Egyptian: Hieroglyph: 𓇽 romanized: dwꜣt) is a concept in ancient Egyptian mythology involving death.
Ancient Mesopotamian underworld (Wikipedia)
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The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erá¹£etu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology.
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