tower of silence

Two of the museum's most compelling exhibits are replicas of a Tower of Silence and a Parsi fire temple.

The Tower of Silence, or dakhma, is where Parsis leave their dead to be returned to nature - neither buried nor cremated.

“Russia has become a tower of silence.”

I had to wait in bed a few minutes for my own Tower of Silence to go away.

The Monday report said that the Administrative Justice Court issued the suspension for Sepanta Niknam following a complaint by a candidate for the Yazd city council, purportedly over the fencing around the city’s famed “Tower of Silence”.