Episode

Ep 261: Timur - He was a fan of skulls

Podcast: Doomed to Fail
Published: Sep 14, 2026
Duration seconds: 2672
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Summary

Today in 'things could be worse' at least the early 15th century warrior king Timur (aka Tamerlane) isn't knocking on your city walls demanding piles of heads. Because for real that happened, Timur's empire spanned Central Asia and was characterized by wall-to-wall bone-chilling terror (including flaming camels!), whilst saving the artists & scientists building a cultural renaissance out of whoever didn't die. We're talking Genghis Khan ancestry, Persian expansion, and more!