Karsakpay inscription
The Karsakpay inscription (also called the Timur's stone) is a message carved on April 28, 1391 into a fragment of rock in Ulu Tagh mountainside near the Karsakpay mines, Kazakhstan. It was found in 1935. It consists of three lines in Arabic, and eight lines in Chagatai, written in the Old Uyghur alphabet.

After its discovery, the Karsakpay inscription was taken to the Hermitage Museum of in Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1936, where it is today. Timur asks those reading the inscription to remember him with a prayer.

The inscription was reasearched and published by Nicholas Poppe in 1940, and later researched by Napil Bazilhan, Hasan Eren, Olga Borisovna Frolova, A. P. Grigoryev, N.N. Telitsyn, A.N. Ponomarev and Zeki Velidi Togan.
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Karsakpay
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Arabic
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Chagatai
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Old Uyghur alphabet
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Hermitage Museum
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Leningrad
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St. Petersburg, Russia
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Timur
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Nicholas Poppe
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Hasan Eren
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Zeki Velidi Togan
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Karsakpay inscription
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Karsakpay inscription
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1391-04-28T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
April 28, 1391
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1935-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1935
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1936-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1936
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1940-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1940
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located in the administrative territorial entity
located in the administrative territorial entity