In Europe the name Timur iLeng, Timur the Lame, became Tamerlane or Tamburlaine. Lame he was, merciful he was not. As his latest biographer Justin Marozzi says, the millions he slaughtered – ‘buried alive, cemented into walls, massacred on the battlefield, sliced in two at the waist, trampled to death by horses, beheaded, hanged’ – …
Timur(-e) Lang : The Lame Conqueror
