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UNESCO Takht-e Soleyman interpretation includes fuel and water of a fire sanctuary

The 2003 UNESCO listing of Takht-e Soleyman presents a fire-and-water landscape. In the causal graph this event weakens Energy Security, a driver that strengthens Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population) — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

Read the full account

The 2003 UNESCO listing of Takht-e Soleyman presents a fire-and-water landscape. He did not file 2003.

Context

Split conservation-access and political-use rows. This stores fuel-of-the-shrine as later told.

Zoroaster is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A 2003 listing is not a founder’s fuel ledger.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Zoroaster

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.1 · verified

    Named prophet as heading of later hymns and state religion. Redactors, Sasanian kings, and later Parsi printers publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactUNESCO Takht-e Soleyman interpretation includes fuel and water of a fire sanctuary
    2. weakensDriverEnergy Security
    3. strengthensIndicators (4)Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population)
    Mixed path

    impact weight 0.2 · Effect from 1 June 2003 · verified

    A 2003 listing is not a founder’s fuel ledger.

    • Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population)

      via Energy Security

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.62)

      Observed

      10.4% · 10.2 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 11.1% to 10.4%.

      Above normal = worse

    • Inability to keep home adequately warm

      via Energy Security

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.6)

      Observed

      7.97% of population aged 16 years or over · 5.2 above the normal line (2025)

      Worse than normal

      8 readings, 2018–2025: rose from 7.77% of population aged 16 years or over to 7.97% of population aged 16 years or over.

      Above normal = worse

    • Access to electricity (share of world population)

      via Energy Security

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.5)

      Observed

      91.6% of population · 8.4 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      4 readings, 2020–2023: rose from 90.4% of population to 91.6% of population.

      Above normal = better

    All indicators on this path (4)

    • Life expectancy at birth

      via Energy Security

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.48)

      Observed

      80 Years · 2.3 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      6 readings, 2018–2023: rose from 79.5 Years to 80 Years.

      Above normal = better

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Met Heilbrunn — Sasanian artMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.UNESCO — Takht-e SoleymanUNESCO World Heritage Centre · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorZoroaster
  2. contributed toFactUNESCO Takht-e Soleyman interpretation includes fuel and water of a fire sanctuary
  3. weakensDriverEnergy Security
  4. strengthensIndicatorPoverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population)

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). UNESCO Takht-e Soleyman interpretation includes fuel and water of a fire sanctuary. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/zo-energy-fire-temples-fuel

https://factrail.ai/facts/zo-energy-fire-temples-fuel

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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