All Episodes

Tamerlane's Last March: The Aborted Invasion of Ming China

Tamerlane vs the Knights of St. John: The Siege of Smyrna

Tamerlane vs Tokhtamysh: The War That Broke the Golden Horde

Tamerlane's Damascus: The Mamluk Campaign of 1401

Tamerlane's Captive Persian Tilemakers: The Samarkand Blue Revolution

Tamerlane's Captive Persian Astronomers and the Samarkand Observatory

Tamerlane's Captive Armenian Architects and the Samarkand Cathedral-Mosque

Tamerlane's Captive Persian Calligraphers and the Samarkand Scriptorium

Tamerlane's Captive Indian Musicians and the Samarkand Sound

The Battle of Ankara 1402: Tamerlane vs Bayezid the Thunderbolt

Tamerlane's Captive Chinese Calendar: The Samarkand Timekeepers

Tamerlane's Indian Captive Calligraphers and the Samarkand Scriptorium

Tamerlane's Captive Mongol Diplomats and the Embassy to Ming China

Tamerlane's Jewish Captives and the Samarkant Megillah

Tamerlane's Captive Chinese Physicians and the Samarkand Hospital

Tamerlane's Captive Chinese Paper Makers and the Samarkand Library

Tamerlane's Captive Persian Horse Breeders: The Samarkand Stud Farms

Tamerlane's Captive Sufi Mystics: The Samarkand Spiritual Crucible

Tamerlane's Captive Elephant Corps: War Beasts from Delhi

Tamerlane's Captive Chess Masters and the Timurid Game of Strategy

Tamerlane's Captive Persian Tilemakers: The Samarkand Blue Revolution

Tamerlane's Captive Mongolian Wrestlers and the Bukhara Games

Tamerlane's Captive Persian Gardeners and the Samarkand Paradise

Tamerlane's Captive Turkish Engineers: The Samarkand Siege Workshop

Tamerlane's Captive Persian Poets and the Samarkand Literary Renaissance

Tamerlane's Captive Metallurgists and the Samarkand Steel Revolution

Tamerlane's Captive Astronomers: The Samarkand Observatory Legacy

Tamerlane's Captive Indian Stone Carvers and the Samarkand Monuments

Tamerlane's Captive Cartographers and the Samarkand Map Room

Tamerlane's Captive Architect: The Bibi-Khanym Mosque Revisited

Tamerlane's Captive Camel Corps: The Logistics of Steppe Empire

Tamerlane's Captive Persian Bureaucrats: The Diwan of Samarkand

Tamerlane's Captive Calligraphers: The Samarkand Scriptorium

Tamerlane's Captive Silk Weavers: The Samarkand Textile Revolution

Tamerlane's Captive Goldsmiths and the Samarkand Jewel

Tamerlane's Captive Mongol Shamans: The Battle for the Steppe Soul

Tamerlane's Captive Steppe Strategists: The Yassa Revival

Tamerlane's Captive Goat Breeders: The Samarkand Pashmina Trade

Tamerlane's Captive Dervishes: The Sufi Orders of the Timurid Empire

Tamerlane's Captive Chess Masters: The Samarkand Shatranj Tournament

Tamerlane's Captive Sufi Saints: Faith, Power, and the Naqshbandi Order

Tamerlane's Captive Elephant Corps: Logistics and Symbolism

Tamerlane's Captive Chinese Physicians: Medicine Across Empires

Tamerlane's Captive Singers and the Samarkand Music Revolution

Tamerlane's Captive Loot: The Samarkand Treasury and the Spoils of Empire

Tamerlane's Captive Uyghur Scribes and the Chagatai Language Boom

Tamerlane's Captive Astronomers: The Samarkand Observatory

Tamerlane's Captive Armourers: The Samarkad Arms Industry

Tamerlane's Captive Architect: The Bibi-Khanym Mosque

Tamerlane's Captive Engineers: The Samarkand Waterworks

Tamerlane's Captive Chinese Printers: The Samarkand Printing Press

Tamerlane's Captive Doctors: Medicine in the Timurid Empire

Tamerlane's Captive Elephant Transport Corps

Tamerlane's Captive Indian Elephants: War Beasts in Central Asia

Tamerlane's Captive Scholars: The Samarkand Library

Tamerlane's Captive Poets and the War of Words

Tamerlane's Captive Goldsmiths and the Samarkand Treasure

Tamerlane's Captive Astronomers and the Samarkand Observatory

Tamerlane's Captive Armorers: The Steppe Arsenal

Tamerlane's Captive Architect and the Bibi-Khanym Mosque

Tamerlane's Captive Sufi Poet: Hafez and the Conqueror's Summons

Tamerlane's Captive Cartographers and the Maps of an Empire

Tamerlane's Captive Goldsmiths and the Samarkand Treasure

Tamerlane's Captive Papermakers and the Samarkand Paper Industry

Tamerlane's Legacy: The Timurid Renaissance in Art and Architecture

Tamerlane's Captive Artisans: The Deportation That Built an Empire

Tamerlane's Captive Scientists: The Knowledge Heist That Built Samarkand

Tamerlane's Captive Scientists: The Knowledge Heist That Built Samarkand

Tamerlane's Religious Policy: Between Orthodoxy and Opportunism

Tamerlane's War Wives: The Women Behind the Conqueror's Throne

Tamerlane's Engineers: The Siege Masters of the Timurid Army

Tamerlane's Indian Campaign: The Delhi Massacre of 1398

Tamerlane's Tax System How He Funded an Empire

Tamerlane's Elephant Stampede at the Battle of Delhi

Tamerlane's Samarkand A City Rebuilt from Dust and Skulls

Tamerlane's Chess Game: The Siege of Shiraz and the Muzaffarid Captive

Tamerlane's Grand Strategy: The Man Who Planned to Invade China

Tamerlane's Persian Poets: The Conqueror Who Commissioned Rival Histories

Tamerlane's Diplomacy with the Ming Dynasty

Tamerlane's Letter Exchange with King Charles VI of France

Tamerlane's Emirate: The Battle of the Iron Gate Against the Khizr Khan Rebellion

Tamerlane's Elephant Corps: War Beasts from Delhi to Samarkand

Tamerlane vs Toqtamish: The Steppe War That Redrew Eurasia

Tamerlane's Battle of Ankara: The Ottoman Empire Crushed

Tamerlane and the Mamluk Exchange: Letters Between Two Empires

Tamerlane's Siege of Herat: The City That Defied the Conqueror

Tamerlane's Siege of Baghdad: The River of Blood

Tamerlane's Shepherds: The Nomadic Army That Built an Empire

Tamerlane's Golden Heart: The Siege of Smyrna and the Hospitallers

Tamerlane's Religious War: The Heretic Campaigns of 1393-94

Tamerlane's Tomb: The Curse of the Gur-e-Amir

Tamerlane's Siege of Isfahan: The Minaret Towers of 1387

Tamerlane's Wives: Power, Politics, and the Women Behind the Throne

Tamerlane's Siege of Damascus: The Fire of 1401

Tamerlane's Indian Invasion The Delhi Sultanate Campaign of 1398

Tamerlane's Samarkand: The City He Built From Ruins

Tamerlane's Trade War: The Silk Road Embargo of 1385

Tamerlane's Damghan Campaign and the Muzaffarid Rebellion

Tamerlane's Golden Chain: The Captive Artisans of Samarkand

Tamerlane's Captive Engineers: Architects of Samarkand

Tamerlane's Chagatai Language and Literary Legacy

Tamerlane and the Chagatai Ulus: The Steppe Empire He Inherited

Tamerlane's Spies: The Anbar and Steppe Intelligence

Tamerlane's Elephant Corps: War Elephants in Central Asia

Tamerlane's Siege of Aleppo: The Nightmare of 1400

The Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I and Tamerlane's Battle of Ankara

Tamerlane's Empire: The Last Great Steppe Economy

The Persian Poet Who Defied Tamerlane: Hafiz of Shiraz

Tamerlane vs Tokhtamysh: The Battle of Kunduzcha and the Steppe Civil War