Samarkand. Gur-e Amir Royalty-Free Stock Image

Tombs of Tamerlane, his sons Shah Rukh and Miran Shah and grandsons Ulugh Beg and Muhammad Sultan. In 1740, Nadir Shah tried to carry off Tamerlanes sarcophagus, Nader idolized Timur, the most successful conqueror from Central Asia. He imitated his military prowess and especially later in his reign cruelty, but it broke in two.he second time the stone was disturbed was on June 19, 1941 when Soviet archaeologists opened the crypt. The anthropologist Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov was able to reconstruct Tamerlane's facial features from his skull, and it was also confirmed that he was 172 cm in height, a giant for his day, and would have walked with a pronounced limp.