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A Fire Altar and a 2,300-Year-Old Chest Found in Uzbekistan Reopen the Mystery of How Zoroastrist Ancestors Buried Their Dead
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Recent excavations in Odirmon, Uzbekistan, revealed an altar of fire and a bone urn over 2,000 years old, indicating funeral practices that avoided both burial and cremation.
The ensemble, dated provisionally between the 3rd century BC and the 3rd AD, offers a window to the funeral rites of a population that, centuries before the famous Towers of Silence were erected, already treated their dead in a very particular way: neither buried nor cremated them. The discovery has been [...]
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