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Religious Architecture, Ancient Persian, Silence Wallpaper, Tower Of Silence, Ahura Mazda, Horror Drawing, Persian Empire, History Of India, Vintage India

A tower of silence (known also as a ‘dakhma’) is a type of structure used for funerary purposes by adherents of the Zoroastrian faith. This Zoroastrian practice for the disposal of the dead involves the exposure of the corpse to the sun and vultures.

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EVERYTHING ABOUT ARCHAEOLOGY: WHAT IS THE CLAY TABLET ? Clay Tablet, Prehistoric Period, Writing Forms, Johannes Gutenberg, Ancient Recipes, Ancient Mesopotamia, Archaeological Discoveries, Ancient Mythology, Ancient Origins

CLAY TABLET: The main writing material used by the scribes of early civilizations. Signs were impressed or inscribed on the soft clay, which was then dried in the sun. The ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites wrote on tablets made from water-cleaned clay. A common form was a thin quadrilateral tile about 12.5 cm (5 inches) long which, while still wet, was inscribed by a stylus with cuneiform characters. By writing on the surface in small characters, a scribe could copy a…

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The Truth Behind the Christ Myth: The Green Man and the Legend of Jesus – Part II | Ancient Origins Bible Contradictions, Ahura Mazda, Jewish Temple, Alien Artifacts, The Green Man, The Pleiades, History Facts Interesting, Ancient Origins, Mystery Of History

So how did the oft-used legend of the Green Man eventually become chosen to be the legend of Jesus? Let us begin when it was the life story of the ancient Green Man and work forward to the time of the Christian Son of God. [Part I here]

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