{"id":48489,"date":"2026-05-11T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48489"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:57:21","slug":"city-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/city-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"City of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karakalpakstan\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karakalpakstan\">Karakalpakstan<\/a><\/strong>, an autonomous region of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uzbekistan\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uzbekistan\">Uzbekistan<\/a><\/strong>, the graves of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mizdahkan\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mizdahkan\">Mizdakhan<\/a><\/strong> cemetery rise in the evening light. This archaeological necropolis complex adjoins the remains of the Zoroastrian fortress of Gyaur-Kala, dating back to the 4th century AD. It is one of the oldest and most visited pilgrimage sites in Karakalpakstan, owing to the purported presence of Adam&#8217;s tomb ; a legend rooted in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoroastrianism\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoroastrianism\">Zoroastrian<\/a><\/strong> mythology, which places the grave of the first man, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keyumars\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keyumars\">Keyumars<\/a><\/strong>, at the Mizdakhan cemetery.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits: Hubert-Felix Delattre (France)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, the graves of the Mizdakhan cemetery rise in the evening light. This archaeological necropolis complex adjoins the remains of the Zoroastrian fortress of Gyaur-Kala, dating back to the 4th century AD. It is one of the oldest and most visited pilgrimage sites in Karakalpakstan, owing to the purported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48491,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489\/revisions\/48491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48489"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}