<noembed><nolayer><div style="position:absolute; left:0; top:-100; display:none;">
Yazd - Zoroastrian Towers of Silence<br> Iran picture - The followers of the Zoroastrian faith wrapped their dead in white cloth and placed them here to be eaten by the vultures. The remaining bones (some still visible) are swept into the middle depression. Zoroastrians now have to bury their dead in graves.
</div></nolayer></noembed>
small
|
medium
|
large
|
view full-size
image -- 1468 x 947)
The followers of the Zoroastrian faith wrapped their dead in white cloth and placed them here to be eaten by the vultures. The remaining bones (some still visible) are swept into the middle depression. Zoroastrians now have to bury their dead in graves.
North Africa/Middle East
view full-size
image -- 1468 x 947)