Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 517
PRESUMABLE ANCIENT DAKHMAHS ON THE CLIFF 305 The Persians in Aclisemenian times, moreover, had not gener-ally adopted the Magian fashion of exposing the dead, butrather buried the body, merely coating it with wax, as a con-cession to the Magi, who followed the strict Zoroastrian lawfor exposing…
Zoroastrianism
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