Word: timur
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...marble slab were five rough slabs of limestone. Under them, the ebony coffin in which the conqueror lay in robes " of gold brocade. Except for the head, the skeleton was well-preserved in musk and rose water, and the scientists discovered that philology was right (Tamerlane comes from Timur Leuk, meaning Timur the Lame) : his right leg was shorter than his left. With him were buried two sons and his astronomer grandson, Ulugh...
Tamburlaine the Great. As U. S. citizens sink their every prejudce in praising Lincoln, so Timur is always upon approving lips at Samarkand. The largest slab of jade known to exist is his tombstone (6 ft. x 17 in. x 14 in); and every child of Samarkand has stood in the great vaulted octagonal hall where the green jade tomb reposes, surrounded by six family tombs of white marble...
...stage spectacle, it was ultra-magnificent. Boris Anisfeld, most vigorous of modern Russian 'decorative artists, given a free hand with Eastern temple scenes and Oriental Gardens of Paradise, had splashed his paint regardless. The story, too, had its points as melodrama. Alim (King of Lahore), Scindia (Prime Minister), Timur (High Priest), the god Indra, rajahs, priests, fakirs, soldiers, dancers, bayaderes, slaves, musicians united in scenes of love and war to produce a scheme of action, ending gloriously in two suicides that gave unexampled opportunities to the composer. But Massenet's score disappointed those who might ignorantly have looked...