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SOUL SEARCHING
Humankind has long subscribed to the notion that a soul exists that outlasts the body and remains eternal. One of the more compelling pieces of evidence concerning the belief in everlasting souls was recently uncovered in an Iron Age city called Sam'al in Turkey. It was there that archeologists found a three-foot-tall, 800-pound slab of stone dating back to about the eighth century B.C. that was inscribed with an image of a deceased man. Although he was probably cremated, the words inscribed on the stone explained how the man's soul was thought to live on in the slab. This belief in an eternal soul was shared by Greeks who lived around the same time, and it persists to this day.
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