Gumbad Raisan “The Domes of Silence” is the title of a research-based article on burial rituals, architecture, and material culture of Rais dynasty. In sixteenth-century CE, Rais rulers ruled the northern regions of Pakistan bordering with Central Asia, in Chitral, Gilgit. The monument of Gumbad Raisan was initially documented and depicted by a local chronicler Mirza Ghufran in 1921 CE and described the burial as Dakhma. This article includes brief definitions of the word Dakhma, its origin, and the historical background. It also gives circumstantial information about the indigenous people of the eastern Hindu Kush, their religion and the ruling elites of the regions. The ancient history of this region is seemed to be muzzling, this article concludes some historical shreds of evidence of ancient history of Chitral.

Gumbad, Zoroastrianism, Dakhma, Rais, Chitral

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