• Early 20th century drawing of the dakhma on Malabar Hill, Mumbai. A dakhma (Persian: دخمه), also known as a Tower of Silence, is a circular...
  • Pin on ancient towers of silence once essential feature zoroastrian burial rituals dakhma (avestan: tower...
  • And since there are two towers in Yazd, in English it is popular to The Towers of Silence.
  • The Tower of Silence, built upon circular and raised platforms, was designed to fulfill a specific purpose in the Zoroastrian afterlife tradition.
  • Jenny Sterlin, Brandon Gill, and Taylor Rose in Tower of Silence (2019).
  • The tower of silence or dakhma is a circular structure used for the funeral rites of Zoroastrians.
  • The term “Tower of Silence” is a neologism attributed to Robert Murphy, who, in 1832, was a translator of the British colonial Government in India.
  • The Yazd Towers of Silence are the Zoroastrian towers of silence located 15 kilometers to the south east of the city of Yazd.