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Herodotus reports on the Persian burial customs performed by the Magi, which are kept secret. However, he writes that he knows they expose the body of male dead to dogs and birds of prey, then cover the corpse in wax, then bury in. The Achaemenid custom for the dead has been recorded in the regions of Bactria, Sogdia, and Hyrcania, but not

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