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Timur's Black Death Siege of Damascus
In 1400, Timur’s army reached the walls of Damascus and faced a nightmare: the plague. When the Mamluk Sultanate refused to surrender, Timur ordered his engineers to construct massive siege towers and catapults, but history records something far more chilling. He allegedly filled baskets with corpses infected by the bubonic plague and launched them into the city. This episode explores the terrifying intersection of military engineering and biological warfare in late medieval Central Asia. We examine the accounts of Ibn Khaldun, who witnessed the aftermath, and Ruy González de Clavijo, whose…
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