HISTORY & CIVILIZATIONS · 1631–1648
Taj Mahal, Agra, India
Shah Jahan commissioned this white-marble mausoleum in memory of Mumtaz Mahal.
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The story, as a puzzle
An emperor’s marble memorial.
A grieving Mughal emperor spent some seventeen years raising a white-marble tomb for his favourite wife on the banks of the Yamuna. Where?
Where it is
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