The Taj Mahal is a stunning ivory-white marble mausoleum in Agra, India. It was built in 1631 by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It took 22 years to finish and cost a whopping ...

Agra's Taj Mahal has been declared the 'World’s Most Beautiful in 2025' by Time Out, reaffirming its global allure. This ...

Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal to hold the body of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631. Built on a terrace above the meandering Yamuna River, it took 20,000 craftsmen and labourers ...

Since the Taj Mahal was completed in the mid-1600s, the world’s most famous monument to undying love has had to put up with an awful lot of meddling mortals. In the 18th century, its bejeweled ...

LAHORE, March 3: The monuments known for their rich collection of semi-precious stones have not seen ‘pietra dura’ work for the last 22 years.

The pietra-dura inlay is superb: semi-precious stones such as lapis lazuli, ... To get the classic shot of the Taj Mahal, point your camera straight down the central pool for the perfect reflection.

Amid ongoing row over ‘poor maintenance’ of Taj Mahal, multiple cracks and damage have appeared on the walls and floors of the historic monument due to heavy rainfall in Agra over the past ...

View NINE VIEWS OF MONUMENTS, INCLUDING THE RED FORT AT AGRA, THE MOTI MASJID, THE INTERIOR OF AKBAR'S TOMB AT SIKANDRA, AND DETAILS OF THE PIETRA DURA WORK IN THE TAJ MAHAL By Company School, 19th ...

Artisan Riazuddin, whose forefathers had gained mastery over pietra dura and worked on Red Fort in India and Taj Mahal before partition, regretted that for the last over two decades nothing had ...