# UNESCO lists Takht-e Soleyman, a Sasanian fire-sanctuary landscape of later Zoroastrian state cult

Date: 2003

## The fact

In 2003 UNESCO inscribed Takht-e Soleyman. The listing is a completed conservation-access act. He did not file 2003. Access to a fire-and-water sanctuary of the later state religion is the path.

## Context

Split fuel-cost and imperial-cult harms.

[Zoroaster](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official heritage, encyclopedia, or public Avesta pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: UNESCO — Takht-e Soleyman (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/761/; UNESCO World Heritage Centre).

## Significance

A 2003 polygon is not a Gatha.

A 2003 polygon is not a Gatha.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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.

## People

- Zoroaster: https://factrail.ai/people/zoroaster

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/761/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zarathustra

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/zo-unesco-takht-2003