Timur Leng News Today

Tourists who fly to Mongolia’s capital may be surprised to find themselves landing at Genghis Khan International Airport. Certainly, Ulaanbaatar’s choice of name strikes a different note from Liverpool’s John Lennon or Tirana’s Mother Teresa. (Does the muzak in the arrivals hall play a song called Give War a Chance?)

After Genghis came Timur Leng, later to become Marlowe’s hero, as this rewarding and detailed study of the Mongol empire relays

The surprise winner of the most recent world rapid chess championships was the new 17-year-old superstar Nodirbek Abd...

11 instrumentalists make Vivaldi rock, the shenanigans on stage not so much. Opera review by David Nice

Called also Tamerlane, from the Persian Timur Leng and the Arabic Tamarlang (both meaning Timur the Lame; see below). The Life of Timur node|Volume I: H...