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Across Iran,
coliseum-like funerary towers sit atop mountainsides. The flat tops of these
spiraling alters are used as a gruesome feeding platter of sorts in keeping
with a 3,000-year-old tradition: they were built to offer up corpses to be
consumed by birds of prey.
Called Towers
of Silence, or dakhmas, these temples to the dead are part of an ancient
Zoroastrian ritual meant to ensure the circle of life continues and that the
body of a deceased doesn’t pollute the elements held sacred.
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