There’s a legend about the jade tombstone in here. The Chinese believe that Jade has divine powers, so they gifted a huge slab to Ulugbek the ruler here in 1425 when he defeated the Mongols. The people in Samarkand made a tombstone out of it for Amir Temur.
In 1740, Iran took it after winning a conquest and had it made into floor and wall coverings for a sacred building in Tehran. The Shah of Iran had a dream in which the spiritual teacher of Amir told him the Jade must be returned to Samarkand. He shit his pants and ordered it be sent back.
The tomb was cursed with the inscriptions:
‘When I rise from the dead, the world shall tremble’
‘Whosoever disturbs my tomb will unleash an invader more terrible than I am’.
In 1941 news came to Samarkand that Stalin had ordered Soviet Archeologists to come and open the tomb. The people of Samarkand went crazy with panic. They tried to stop it but failed, and on June 21st 1941 the tomb was opened. The remains were sent to Moscow for study. Two days after the opening, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
The turning point in the war came with the Battle
Of Stalingrad, a month earlier Stalin had sent the remains back to Samarkand, so the people here think that’s why the Nazis were defeated.

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