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Tamerlane's Tomb: The Curse of Gur-e-Amir
When the Soviet archaeologist Mikhail Gerasimov opened Tamerlane's crypt in 1941, he triggered a chain of events that some believe unleashed a curse. This episode explores the legend of the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum in Samarkand, the 1941 exhumation, the Nazi invasion of the USSR the next day, and the later reburial in 1942 just before the Soviet victory at Stalingrad. We delve into the symbolism of Timur's epitaph, the warnings inscribed on his jade tombstone, and the mix of archaeology, folklore, and wartime coincidence that turned Gerasimov's excavation into one of history's…
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