Unlike the rich corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts, no such “guidebooks” from Mesopotamia detail the afterlife and the soul's fate after death. Instead, ancient Mesopotamian views of the afterlife must be pieced together from a variety of sources across different genres.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original content at https://www.worldhistory.org/article/701/ancient-mesopotamian-beliefs-in-the-afterlife/.