TIL that Shah-i-Zinda complex, a necropolis in Samarkand, Uzbekistan was formed over eight centuries(from 11th to 19th)

Also a fascinating fact about the Curse of Taimur, great great great grandfather of Babur.

“It is alleged that Taimur's tomb was inscribed with the words, When I rise from the dead, the world shall tremble.

When the Russians exhumed the body, an additional inscription inside the casket was found, which read, "Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I."

In any case, 3 days after Gerasimov began the exhumation, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest military invasion of all time, upon the Soviet Union. Taimur was re-buried with full Islamic ritual in Nov 1942 just before the Soviet victory at the Battle of Stalingrad.