- TOWERS OF SILENCE
- towers in Persia and India, some 60 ft. in height, on the top of which the Parsees deposit their dead to be gnawed by vultures.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
TOWERS OF SILENCE
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