Can the autopsy of Genghis Khan's grave lead to the start of a new war?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In the Mongolian province of Henchi, builders paving a road along the Onon River have discovered an ancient mass grave. Several dozen human corpses were found in the huge stone structure, according to media reports. Archaeologists qualified the burial as a royal tomb, there is a high probability that it is the tomb of the legendary Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.

According to historical manuscripts, Genghis Khan himself did not want his grave to ever be found. The slaves who created the burial were killed by the warriors of the conqueror, and they, in turn, were executed by Genghis Khan's personal guard, selflessly loyal to him. There is a belief that at the burial place, on the order of the khan, sorcerers and shamans performed a ritual to impose all kinds of curses on anyone who disturbed his grave. According to ancient legend, the opening of the conqueror's grave will lead to the most terrible and ruthless war on Earth.

Researchers believe that this is just a myth and there is nothing to fear. But let's remember the story of the discovery and opening of the grave of the great Khan Tamerlane.

Then the news was passed from mouth to mouth: “The Russian expedition is going to open the grave of the Great Timur! A curse will fall on our heads! - such conversations ran through the bazaars and streets of Samarkand in June 1941, when an expedition led by Tashmukhammed Kary-Niyazov and Mikhail Gerasimov began excavations in Gur-Emir. Local residents and Muslim clergy tried to stop the excavation, but the expedition, in spite of that, continued its work.

The task of those excavations was to study the remains of people in the tombs and prove that they belong directly to Timur and his closest relatives. Excavations began on June 16. The graves of Ulugbek's sons were discovered first. Then the tombs of Timur's sons - Miranshah and Shakhrukh. On June 18, the remains of Ulugbek, Timur's grandson, were excavated. On June 19, a heavy tombstone was removed from the tomb of Tamerlane himself. On June 20, Timur's coffin was opened, and the mausoleum was filled with a sharp, suffocating smell of a mixture of some resin, camphor, rose and incense.

Two days after the opening of Timur's grave, on the night of June 22, fascist Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war. Many associated this with the discovery of Tamerlane's grave. Panic broke out in Samarkand. The expedition was urgently curtailed, and the remains of Temur and Temurids were sent to Moscow for research. But if you think deeply, all these events will seem like a chain of coincidences, since the Second World War began in 1939 with the attack on Poland, and the plan for the attack on the USSR "Barbarossa" was approved by Hitler back in 1940.

However, one more important fact is cited by the supporters of this hypothesis. The turning point in the war came with the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad. A month before that, Stalin ordered to return the remains of Timur and Timurids to Samarkand and bury them with all the honors. According to legend, the plane with the remains was carried over the front line for a month, which caused enthusiasm and enthusiasm among the Muslims who fought on the fronts of World War II. Many believe that it was this event that caused the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad - one of the most terrible and at the same time heroic battles of this War.