Babur Literary Museum

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This museum occupies the site of the royal apartments where Zahiruddin Babur (1483–1530) lived and studied as a boy within Ark-Ichy, the town’s long-gone citadel. The mildly interesting displays focus on Babur's literary exploits, specifically his Baburnama, a vast memoir of Babur's fascinating and tumultuous life. A graph of Babur's family tree shows his descent from Timur on the male line and from Genghis Khan on his mother’s side.


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