Examples of ba in the following topics:
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- Humans also possessed a ba, a set of spiritual characteristics unique to each person, which remained in the body after death.
- Funeral rites were meant to release the ba so it could move, rejoin with the ka, and live on as an akh.
- However, the ba returned to the body at night, so the body must be preserved.
- Eventually, by about 2181 BCE, Egyptians began to believe every person had a ba and could access the afterlife.
- If so, the ka and ba were united into an akh, which then either traveled to the lush underworld, or traveled with Ra on his daily journey, or even returned to the world of the living to carry out magic.
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- Marriage by capture, or "Ba'al," was also a common pre-Islamic practice.
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- Decoration included reliefs (bas relief and sunken relief) of images and hieroglyphic text and sculpture, including obelisks, figures of gods (sometimes in sphinx form), and votive figures.
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- The most important of these cities was Mecca, which was an important center of trade in the area, as well as the location of the Kaaba (or Ka'ba), one of the most revered shrines in polytheistic Arabia.
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- In Babylonia, in place of the bas-relief, there was a preponderance of three-dimensional figures—the earliest examples being the Statues of Gudea—that were realistic, if also somewhat clumsy.
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- Those not living in the mountains formed small city-states such as Toron, Ka-Ba, and Niani.