Over 100 years after his death and thousands of miles from the extreme edges of his empire, Timur showed up in a British play. Christopher Marlowe’s 1587 Tamburlaine the Great, a play in two parts, ...

The beautiful Gur Emir is a mausoleum of the conqueror Timur, also known as Tamerlane, in Samarkand. It is one of the main tourist attractions in Uzbekistan. / Korea Times file ...

While the rest of Soviet Russia stood to its guns last week awaiting a conqueror from the west, scientists far east in Samarkand pried into the tomb of the mightiest conqueror of them all, Tamerlane ...