390 years ago today, the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan lost his wife during childbirth and called for builders to begin work on the Taj Mahal, the world’s most admired mausoleum. He spent the next 20 years building her tomb from ivory-white marble on the southern bank of the river Yamuna in the Indian city of […]
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