The ancient desert city of Yazd is located within the centre of the State Of Iran and is one of the country’s oldest cities


A dakhma, also known as the Tower of Silence, is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation–that is, the exposure of human cadavers to the elements for decay in order to avert contamination of the soil with the corpses.


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