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References
Timur's generally recognized biographers are Ali Yazdi, commonly called Sharaf 
ud-Din, author of the 
Zafarnвma in Persian, translated by Petis de la Croix in 1722, 
and from French into English by J. Darby in the following year; and Ahmad ibn 
Muhammad ibn Abdallah, al-Dimashiqi, al-Ajami translated by the Dutch Orientalist 
Colitis in 1636. In the work of the former, as Sir William Jones remarks, «the Tatarian 
conqueror is represented as a liberal, benevolent and illustrious prince», in that of the 
latter he is «deformed and impious, of a low birth and detestable principles.» But the 
favourable account was written under the personal supervision of Timur's grandson, 
Ibrahim, while the other was the production of his direst enemy. 
Among less reputed biographies or materials for biography may be mentioned a 
second Zafarnвma, by Nizam al-Din Shami, stated to be the earliest known history of 
Timur, and the only one written in his lifetime. Timur's purported autobiography, the 
Tuzuk-i Temur is a later fabrication, although most of the historical facts are accurate. 
More recent biographies include Justin Marozzi's Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, 
Conqueror of the World, and Roy Stier's Tamerlane: The Ultimate Warrior. 
Exhumation
Timur 
Timur's body was exhumed from his tomb in 1941 by the Soviet anthropologist 
Mikhail M. Gerasimov. He found that Timur's facial characteristics conformed to that 
of Mongoloid features, which he believed, in some part, supported Timur's notion that 
he was descended from Genghis Khan. He also confirmed Timur's lameness. 
Gerasimov was able to reconstruct the likeness of Timur from his skull. 
Famously, a curse has been attached to opening Timur's tomb. In the year of Timur's 
death, a sign was carved in his tomb warning that whoever would dare disturb the tomb 
would bring demons of war onto his land. Gerasimov's expedition opened the tomb on 

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June 19, 1941. Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi 
Germany, began three days later. Timur's skeleton and that of Ulugh Beg, his 
grandson, were reinterred with full Islamic burial rites in 1942. 

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