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Tamerlane's Body: The Mystery of His Missing Tomb and the Curse of Timur
In this episode of Fexingo History, Lucas and Luna delve into the strange and macabre story of Tamerlane's body—or rather, the mystery of his missing remains. After his death in 1405, the conqueror was buried in the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum in Samarkand, but when Soviet archaeologists opened his tomb in 1941, they found an empty coffin. Or did they? The episode explores the legend of the Curse of Timur, which supposedly triggered the Nazi invasion of the USSR, and the later forensic reconstruction of his face based on a skeleton that may or may not have been his. We examine the accounts of…
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