Plain and simple: This is the reason you come to Agra. The Taj Mahal is a majestic tomb built in the Mughal style, which combines Indian, Islamic and Persian architectural principles. Visitors ...

The Taj Mahal, perhaps the most famous monument in India, is named as one of the seven wonders of the modern world. The ...

A billion chocolate-box images and tourist guidebooks order us to "read" the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's marble mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, known as "Taj Bibi," as the World's Greatest ...

An immense mausoleum of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife, the Taj Mahal is the jewel of Muslim art in India ...

Known among the seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum located on the banks of the Yamuna river in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. The iconic monument was commissioned ...

Ms Safvi says a book titled Taj Mahal: The Illumined Tomb by WE Begley and ZA Desaihas compiled an anthology of these documents. "From such books I realised how well-documented the building of the ...

The 17th-Century marble mausoleum was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his queen, Mumtaz Mahal. Yogesh Kumar Singh The entrance of the Taj was deserted on Monday It has long been ...

A personal account of visiting the Taj Mahal, photographing its inlay work, and a memorable story from the past ...

the jewel of India, the far-famed Taj Mahal. Pearly pink at dawn and opalescent by moonlight, Mumtaz Mahal's tomb is so delicately ethereal that it threatens to disappear during Agra's white-heat ...

The famous tourist destination still has plenty to offer. 6 min read "The Taj Mahal shows three faces,” says Nicholas Wapshott, a British writer, journalist, and father. “In the early morning ...

No separate line can be made, says Raj Kumar Patel, superintending archaeologist at the Archaeological Survey of India ...