Anthropologists have put forth a theory that the reason why an Iranian cemetery has penis-shaped tombstones is that it may be connected to a culture from Central Asia or India that practised phallic worship, but there is little evidence to support this theory.
Let us introduce you to the Khalid Nabi cemetery as you have probably not recently travelled to Iran and are almost certain to have never been to one of its cemeteries.
When you think of a cemetery, you typically picture crowded tombs, but this peculiar cemetery isn't at all like that. There are gravestones that resemble male genitalia there, amid a mountainous region surrounded by many lush hills.
The cemetery is situated in a mountainous region in northern Iran, close to the Turkmenistan border. There are several grave markers there, most of them are in the form of the male genital organ.
Although there is little evidence to support this theory, anthropologists who have tried to examine the site think that the ...