Latest / Tamerlane: The Conqueror Who Tried to Rebuild the Mongol Legacy — Fexingo History
Tamerlane's Engineers: He Built an Empire of Dust
In 1404, before his final march toward China, Tamerlane summoned the great minds of his empire to Samarkand and set them a strange task: build him a working chariot that could fire rockets. This episode follows the engineers, architects, and astronomers who turned a conqueror's obsession into reality. We trace the career of the master builder Mahmud ibn Ishaq, who created the Bibi-Khanym mosque and the Ak Saray palace, and meet the metallurgists who cast the largest bronze cannons of the age. We look at the water-lifting machines that made Samarkand's gardens bloom, the astronomical…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.