In Tibet, birds of prey play a pivotal role in Sky Burials, and elsewhere, Zoroastrian tradition saw the erection of Towers Of Silence, a place where corpses are arranged so that carnivorous birds ...

Built on a site inhabited since the Palaeolithic period, the Walled City of Baku reveals evidence of Zoroastrian, Sasanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in cultural ...

After the municipal corporation banned the immersion of ashes from the holy fires at Parsi-Zoroastrian temples in the sea, special pits were created near the Tower of Silence cemetery to bury the ...