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An altar of fire and a 2,300-year-old chest found in Uzbekistan reopen the mystery of how the ancestors of the Zoroastrians buried their dead

The site is provisionally dated to a six-century stretch, from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, offering a window into funerary rites practiced by a population that neither buried nor cremated its dead β€” long before that same principle produced the famous Towers of Silence. The find comes from Odirmon, a site […]

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