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Fortresses
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Chilpik
A round Zoroastrian tower of silence on a lone hill by the Amu Darya, south of Nukus, where the dead were once exposed to the elements.
ArchaeologyAbout 1 hour to see
About the place
Chilpik is a ring of mud-brick wall crowning a steep, isolated hill beside the road between Nukus and the towns to the south. It is a dakhma: in the Zoroastrian tradition, bodies were laid out here so that birds and sun would clean the bones, which were then placed in ossuaries.
From the road it looks like a small fortress. Up close, the wall encloses an open, round space with nothing inside but earth and the wide sky.
A path climbs the slope in a few minutes. From the rim you see the Amu Darya, its belt of green fields and the desert on the other side.
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