Herodotus, a Greek historian of the fifth century B.C.E., said that the Egyptians were "the first of mankind who have defended the immortality of the soul."
Herodotus, n'wamatimu wa Mugriki loyi a hanyeke eka lembexidzana ra vuntlhanu B.C.E., u vule leswaku Vaegipta i vanhu "vo sungula lava teke ni mhaka ya leswaku moya wa munhu a wu fi."