A ruler of the Timurid Empire and the grandson of Amir Timur, this Uzbek sultan became a world-renowned scholar, leaving a profound impact on the development of the region now known as Uzbekistan ...

Written in 1406 and preserved in the National Library, it is titled Embassy to Tamerlane and recounts how Clavijo traveled across Central Asia to seek an ally against the Ottomans in the ruler of the ...

Herat was the former capital of the Timurid Empire, which at its height spanned from Baghdad in the west to Delhi in the east. Today, only a handful of artisans are skilled in crafting these tiles ...

He was also briefly the ruler of one of the world's great powers - the Timurid Empire - that at its height ruled not only central Asia, but Iran and Afghanistan, as well as parts of Iraq ...

Herat was the former capital of the Timurid Empire, which at its height spanned from Baghdad in the west to Delhi in the east. Today, only a handful of artisans are skilled in crafting these tiles, ...