Ambitious warlord, patron of the arts and or just a bloodthirsty and vengeful tyrant? Timur the Great or Timur the Terrible. His reign centered here in Samarkand where many still revere him. He now lays to rest under a tombstone made of jade whose inscription reads: “When I rise from the dead, the world shall tremble.”
The World Shall Tremble
Posted byfarflungistanPosted inSamarkand, Silk Road, UzbekistanTags:Central Asia, Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum, Silk Road, Tamerlane, Timur, Uzbekistan
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