At the entrance to the hill from the side of the main gate is the mausoleum of Mazlumkhan-sulu, which is very much loved by art historians: not only is it completely original in Khorezm architecture, it is also thoroughly buried in the ground, looking up only with the roof and domes. Science claims that it was built at the turn of the 13th-14th centuries, under the Golden Horde, and was originally either a palace, buried in the ground to the roof after the death of the owner and turned into a mausoleum, or it was based on an initially underground pre-Muslim temple, rebuilt in later centuries. Anyway, the building is extremely Central Asian, but it has no direct analogues The mausoleum has a very beautiful, albeit very restrained, decoration, again so unusual that monographs are written about it. The "eternal" glaze of medieval Turkestan, Zoroastrian "birds"- faravahars and strange figures in the corners, in which I see silhouettes of animals like monkeys or deer.

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Евгений

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An interesting place, you can see how people are buried according to local traditions. You can touch the story.

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