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Tomb of Mariam-uz-ZamaniMariam-uz-Zamani stands alone among the many wives of Emperor Akbar as the only one granted the rare honor of burial directly beside her husband in Sikandra.
Akbar's tombThe third word of the sentence is the subject itself, Akbar, and his tomb stands as a testament to a reign that tripled the wealth of the Indian subcontinent.
Humayun's TombIn 1558, a grieving widow in Delhi made a promise that would alter the skyline of India forever. Empress Bega Begum, the first wife and chief consort of the…
Shalimar Bagh, SrinagarThe year 1619 marked the transformation of a modest ancient garden into the Shalimar Bagh, a masterpiece that would come to define the Mughal vision of…
Taj MahalOn the 17th of June 1631, the Mughal Empire lost its most cherished empress when Mumtaz Mahal died giving birth to their fourteenth child, Gauhara Begum.