You may be familiar with the Biblical story of the first humans, Adam and Eve. The pair met their downfall after eating the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (the Bible never specifies what kind of fruit, just one of the untold truths of Adam and Eve ). But the details of what happened to the pair after God banished them from the Garden of Eden are less well known. This includes what happened to their bodies after they died. To get some answers, we have to go to Judaic and Islamic sources, mostly apocryphal texts.

After living to the venerable age of 930, Adam died. The Bible does not specify when Eve died or whether it was before or after Adam, though apocryphal texts say she followed him six days later. In the Jewish tradition, they were buried in the Cav

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