Interesting facts about construction
As you know, the great conqueror Tamerlan (1336-1405) was a formidable and ruthless warrior who won a lot of victories. He was famous for his cruelty and mercilessness. But not many people know that to intimidate his opponents, he built pyramids from skulls. Yes, yes, from real human skulls, the skulls of the people killed by him, obtained in the battle of trophies. Being a lover of chess, Tamerlan forced the fighters, warriors – opponents, cut out of the bones of the fallen chess figures and was proud of such souvenirs, giving them as a presentation to the people necessary for him. Now from the hands to the hands of the Nizhny Novgorod region you can buy such chess from ivory.
After three “big campaigns”: “three -year -old” (since 1386), “five -year” (since 1392) and “seven -year” (since 1399), Tamerlan was able to build a pyramid of more than 70,000 heads of the murdered, impressive pyramid from skulls from skulls was visible, it would seem from everywhere!. These frightening enormans indeed, as Tamerlan himself believed, horror and panic on those who disagree with him and not subordinate to him. Freezing in the horror of what he saw, it was unlikely that there was a desire to attack this “splendor”. From each of his campaign he brought hundreds and hundreds of heads, and the main trophy, towering at the very top of the pyramid and, as if heading the army of skulls, was the head of the commander who fought against Tamerlane.
In those days, it was not new to mock the bodies of their enemies, public executions gathered hundreds of people in squares. This spectacular representation was more clear than any warnings and beliefs, showing that anyone who is against it would be here. The followers of Tamerlane, his supporters and connoisseurs of the contribution that he brought to the history of the countries won and devastated by him, were cursed over the bodies and ashes of the disobedients no worse than Tamerlane himself, someone burned alive, someone built huts or other structures from the bones of their victims. Not unquestioning Vlad Tepes “raised” a whole forest from people planted on a stake. But, however, not him, not anyone else was not famous for the same as Tamerlan, who was terrifying at all. Its pyramids became the prototype of the picture of the field of Cezanne “Pyramid from Skulls” (ok. 1898), because more frightening, causing fear, surprise and admiration for the structure, like the Tamerlane pyramids from skulls, history does not yet know.