If you arrived at the Taj Mahal in India before the sun rises on the day of the summer solstice (which usually occurs June 21), and walked up to the north-central portion of the garden where two ...

Situated on the banks of the Yamuna River in Agra, India, the Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum complex that dates back to the 17th century. It was commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in ...

When his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, died in childbirth in 1631, Shah Jahan, who ruled at the height of the Mughal empire, decided to build what would become one of the eight wonders of the world: the Taj ...

One of the seven wonders of the world, India's Taj Mahal, just got a little more interesting after a researcher discovered that its gardens align perfectly with the sun during the summer and winter ...

The seventeenth-century historian and poet Abu Talib Kalim opens his description of the world-famous Taj Mahal with these words. Here we learn that the tomb complex was intended to rival the heavens, ...

39.4 x 44.5 cm. (15.5 x 17.5 in.) ...