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The Curse of Timur's Tomb: Excavating the Gur-i Amir
In 1941, Soviet scientists pried open the sarcophagus of Tamerlane in Samarkand's Gur-i Amir mausoleum — and two days later, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The timing cemented a legend that Timur's tomb was cursed. But what did the excavation actually find? In this episode, Lucas and Luna sift through the archaeology and the folklore: the inscription that allegedly warned 'when I rise, the world shall tremble', the anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov's reconstruction of Timur's face from the skull, the startling evidence of his healed right knee and withered…
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