The Samanid Mausoleum
Lace made of brick that outlived the Mongols underground
The cube-shaped tomb where Ismail Samani lies is built of fired bricks laid in patterns that shift with the moving sun. One of the oldest Islamic buildings in Central Asia, it is said to have been buried in silt by the time the Mongols came, and it was cleared only in the 1930s.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 895 Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin — 12 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 882 Oleg takes Kiev — 25 years earlier
Africa
- c. 900 The bronzes of Igbo-Ukwu — 7 years earlier
- 909 Proclamation of the Fatimid Caliphate — 2 years later
Americas
- c. 900 Rise of Chichen Itza — 7 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Oleg the Wise (aged 62)
- Al-Farabi (aged 35)
- Igor of Kiev (aged 29)
- Æthelstan (aged 13)
- Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (aged 34)
- Edward the Elder (aged 33)