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the dynasty that turned a limping conqueror's bloodbath into a golden age of tile and telescopes.
means a member of, or relating to, the Turco-Mongol dynasty founded by Timur that ruled Central Asia and Persia from the 1370s to 1507, later fathering the Mughals.
from named for Timur (Tamerlane), a 14th-century warlord from Transoxiana whose leg injury earned him the nickname timur-i-lang, timur the lame — the empire he built by pyramiding skulls somehow produced grandsons obsessed with poetry and star charts.
skull towerstimur reportedly built pyramids from enemy skulls
astronomy kinggrandson ulugh beg built a massive samarkand observatory
mughal ancestrybabur, timur's descendant, founded india's mughal empire
architectural flexsamarkand's registan square is pure timurid tilework