A few hundred kilometres southwest of Tehran, on the road to Hamedan, the town of Saveh recalls the lines written by Marco Polo in his book Le Devisement du monde:«In Persia is the city known as Sava (Saveh), where the three Mages came to worship Jesus Christ. In this quoted city, the three Mages are buried in three very large and beautiful tombs; above each burial is a square house, round on top, very well ouvragée; and each is beside the other. The bodies are still whole; and have hair and beard as when they were alive. One was named Balthazar, the second Gaspard, the third Melchior. Equitable Marco was in this city and asked several people of this city the life of these three Mages, but no one knew anything about it, if they were saying that they were three kings, one of the other, who were once buried. But other people in the province, he learned what I'll tell you. Three days before is a village called Cala Ataperistan [castle des Violons du Fire, probably Kashan]. '»»»»Although the Magi were most probably buried on the ground, the disappearance of their graves did not allow them to prove irrefutable evidence. Some claim that the latter, the zoroastrian and worshippers of the fire, belonged to the priestly and erudite caste who had political and religious privileges.In the pre-Islamic Persian, the mages were responsible for the maintenance of the sacred fire and charged with the exposure of the dead to birds of prey in the towers of silence. See also in the town of Saveh, the remains of a timurid arch dam (1381-1501), 55 m in length 26 m high.

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