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Timur leading his troops at the 1401 Siege of Baghdad, near-contemporary portrait in Zafarnama, commissioned by his grandson Ibrahim Sultan in 1424–28. Published in 1435–36.

Timur Lenk (Kesh, April 9, 1336 – Otrar, January 19, 1405) (also known as Timur the Great, Timur the Lame, or in Europe as Tamerlane and Tamburlaine, corruptions of the Persian Temur-i-lang and Temür in Turkic languages) was a Turko-Mongol warlord and the founder of the Timurid Empire and the Timurid dynasty.

Timur Lenk was born in Kesh, today known as Shahrisabz (near Samarkand, Uzbekistan). Although of Turkic roots, he sought to restore the former power of the Mongols. Timur spent most of his life on campaign and rarely stayed in one place for more than a few years. He succeeded in building a new empire on the ruins of the collapsed Mongol Empire. A military genius, he never lost a battle after seizing full power in 1370, but he never established an effectively functioning government in his conquered territories. Often, he had to reconquer them after uprisings, which usually involved extreme brutality, such as constructing towers of severed heads. Timur became infamous and feared from China to Western Europe. During his constant warfare, millions of people perished and entire regions were depopulated. Estimates of the death toll range from 7 to 20 million.

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The less brilliant stories don't survive because people didn't make a million copies of them to pass around. It's pretty much guaranteed that there were a hundred other Gilgamesh stories circulating around the same time that did in fact suck balls, and just as many that were solidly mid, but people didn't write them down as many times (if ever), so fewer (if any) fragments survived.

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