Tamerlane ("The Iron Lame")

Tamerlane was a 14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until 1857.

The Empire of Timur


He triumphed over Golden Horde and Ottoman...

In my two-part paper on the Kaifeng Jews (here and here), I mentioned three stone inscriptions that gave different times for the Jews settlement in China. The 1489 stone cites the Song Dynasty (10th-13th c. CE), the 1512 stone cites the Han Dynasty (2nd c. BCE-2nd c. CE), and the 1663 (side A) stone cites the Zhou Dynasty (11th-3rd c. BCE). Well, it turns out that there are two oral traditions separate...