the words of Timur (Tamerlane) commemorating his victory over the Khan of the Golden Horde, Tokhtamish, in 1391.

From the Gur-Emir Mausoleum in Samarkand, where Timur and his family are buried, comes an exquisite 15th-century door. The double door is made of juniper wood and covered with rich carving with traces of silver, copper, nacre, ebony and rosewood inlaid designs. It was Timur also who commissioned the bronze candlesticks from the mausoleum of Ahmad Yasevi in Turkestan. The later period