10 facts about Tamerlan’s life that you won’t see in a textbook
Screex Timur ibn Taragai Barlas (Tamerlane) Fact #1. Uzbek, Turk or Mongol. Who is he ? From the full name of Tamerlane - Timur ibn Taragai Barlas, it follows that he…
Great rulers of the East. Tamerlane
Timur was born in March 1336 in the village of Khoja-Ilgar, near the fortress of Kesh (modern Uzbek city of Shakhrisabz). In that era, the ruler of Kesh was a…
«The Iron Hammer: Who Tamerlane really was by nationality
Timur, or Tamerlane, as he was nicknamed in the West, belongs, along with Attila and Genghis Khan, among the conquerors who most of all shook the imagination of contemporaries and…
The tomb of the great Genghis Khan — why it still cannot be found
This boundless land seems to be created to give birth to legends. Bottomless blue sky, endless dry steppe, waves of pale waddle and wind walking in all directions. Mongolia. A…
Tamerlane’s tomb uncovered: what frightened the participants of this event
In 1941, a group of Soviet scientists conducted archaeological excavations in Tamerlane's mausoleum. A day later, the Great Patriotic War broke out. Having compared the two events, the frightened participants…
Tamerlane’s art of warfare. Battle of the Kondurcha River
In the last third of the XIV century, Amir Timur, a talented military leader and ruler of Maverannahr (the Arabic name for the Amu Darya and Syr Darya interfluve), stepped…