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Tamerlane's Golden Chain: The Captive Artisans of Samarkand
Long after the dust settled on Tamerlane's conquests, something stranger than pyramids of skulls remained: a city reborn through forced migration. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how Timur systematically relocated thousands of master craftsmen from Damascus, Shiraz, Delhi, and Khiva to his capital, Samarkand. They turn the Registan into a workshop of the world: Persian tile-makers, Syrian glassblowers, Indian stone-carvers, and Khwarezmian metalworkers, all laboring under royal patronage. But what happened when the captive artists built a mosque too tall, or faked a foundation to…
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