"Whoever opens my grave will release an invader even more terrible than I"

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"Whoever opens my grave will release an invader even more terrible than

Timur, also known as Amir Timur and Tamerlane, was a Turko-Mongol conqueror of the 15th century. Timur founded the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia as its first ruler.

On June 19, 1941, three Soviet anthropologists exhumed his grave to examine the ruler's remains. It is said that the words were written on his grave:

"When I rise from the dead, the world will shake." An additional inscription was also found when the body was exhumed.

The inscription read: "Whoever opens my grave will release an invader even more terrible than I."

Three days after the exhumation began, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest military invasion of the Soviet Union of all time.

In November 1942, Timur was buried with a full Islamic ritual, after the Soviets had achieved victory at the Battle of Stalingrad. /bota.al



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