Soldiers filing before Timur, holding heads of their decapitated enemies which they used to build the tower of skulls at Baghdad (1401). A miniature p

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Soldiers filing before Timur, holding heads of their decapitated enemies which they used to build the tower of skulls at Baghdad (1401). A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of the Zafarnama. Image taken from Zafarnama. Originally published in Shiraz, Iran, 1552.

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Size: 4056px × 6352px
Photo credit: © BRITISH LIBRARY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: architectural, artwork, asia, baghdad, element, historical, history, illustration, iraq, persian, soldier, structural, tower, zafarnama