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“Towers of Silence, called dakhma in Farsi, are the architectural structures where Zoroastrians traditionally perform their final rites and where corpses are left to decompose under the sun. Historically, dakhmas were erected in places with sizable Zoroastrian communities — Iran, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. As dictated by the Vendidad, a central text of Zoroastrianism, burying or cremating a body defiles the earth with dead matter. Towers of Silence, however, align with a core principle of Zoroastrianism: leave no trace on the Earth.”