Tamerlane's

In 2002 he released a well-received stand-alone novel, The Years of Rice and Salt, which was based around the high concept that, in a parallel timeline, the Black Death actually killed 100% of the European population, so when Tamerlane's armies reached Europe they found the continent open to easy occupation.

Author Profile: Kim Stanley Robinson Adam Whitehead 2009

In 2002 he released a well-received stand-alone novel, The Years of Rice and Salt, which was based around the high concept that, in a parallel timeline, the Black Death actually killed 100% of the European population, so when Tamerlane's armies reached Europe they found the continent open to easy occupation.

Archive 2009-06-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

Samarkand's Gur Emir mausoleum is the site of Tamerlane's tomb; the marker for his crypt holds an improbably large piece of jade.

Opening Up the Silk Road 2009

A marker for Tamerlane's crypt includes an enormous piece of jade.

Exploring Uzbekistan 2009

Perhaps the darkest moment came in the year 1395, when Central Asian conqueror Tamerlane's hordes swept in from the east, burning towns, killing the men, raping the women and forcing the few survivors to flee high into the rugged Caucasus Mountains that form what is now Russia's southern border.

Moscow, Defying West, Recognizes 2008

One wonders if a congressional resolution condemning Uzbekistan for Tamerlane's slaughter of two million residents of Baghdad in the fourteenth century is coming up next or possibly an indictment of Italy for Scipio Aemilianus 'destruction of the city of Carthage in 146 BC.

Philip Giraldi: Nancy Pelosi and the Armenians 2008

After seizing Baghdad, Tamerlane's men built a pyramid using the heads of 90,000 of his enemies -- the fifteenth-century version of shock and awe.

Cover to Cover 2006

After seizing Baghdad, Tamerlane's men built a pyramid using the heads of 90,000 of his enemies -- the fifteenth-century version of shock and awe.

Cover to Cover 2006

One of Tamerlane's warriors strides by the severed heads of Ottoman sultan Beyazit's troops.

Television: Hordes of Fun 2004

The Khan of the Golden Horde had been dissolved since Tamerlane's raid; several states had been formed from it, of which the principal (p.  101) were Kazan, Saraï or Astrakhan, and the Crimea.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen