Travellers to the fabled city of Samarqand will notmiss the opportunity to visit the tomb of Tīmūr(Tamerlane), the famous conqueror of much of CentralEurasia in the fourteenth century. In the courtyardof the Gur-i Amir, Tīmūr's mausoleum, stands a stoneof greyish marble, approximately ten feet long, fourfeet wide and two and a half feet high, decoratedwith arabesques. A relic of a glorious past, thisstone, known as the Kök Tash, is reputed to haveserved as the great coronation stone for CentralAsian rulers ever since it was used as Tīmūr'sthrone.