Samarkand: the historic centre

Tomb markers, Gur-e-Amir

Tomb markers in the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum of Timur (Tamerlane 1336-1405). His tomb marker is the black one (once a single block of dark-green jade, carried off to Persia in 1740 by the warlord Nadir Shah; it was accidentally broken in two and returned at the urging of his religious advisers when he run into bad luck), flanked by that of Muhammad Sultan (1374-1403), and Shahruh Mirza (1377-1447); in the foreground the marker of Mir Said Baraka, one of Timur's teachers, who died in 1440.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Mon Jun 17, 2013
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