Low Life, High Art From: The Washington Post | Date: April 14, 1989| Author: Hank Burchard | Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

WHEN TAMERLANE sacked a city, and he sacked a lot of them, he heaped the heads of the inhabitants in front of the ruins. Once he left a pyramid of 70,000 skulls to bleach under the pitiless sun of Central Asia.

If he was feeling really cross, the warlord would have the living prisoners carefully stacked and then encased in clay. The women - well, let's not go into what became of the women - but first he threw their screaming children on the fire "as though he were burning incense," a...

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