Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · War
1387
Timur sacks Isfahan after revolt
1387
When the Persian city rose against his tax collectors, Timur ordered every soldier to bring back a quota of severed heads. By morning seventy thousand heads were piled into pyramids outside the gates, each tower a grotesque monument visible for miles. The technique, repeated across Khorasan and Mesopotamia, was Timur's trademark form of pacification.
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