From hand-carved temples and 9th-century stairwells to Raj-era monuments and fortresses dating back to the Mughal dynasty, ...
The Taj Mahal is a Unesco World Heritage site and ... The emperor used marble from Rajasthan, which was believed to have a unique quality – it appears pink in the morning, white in the afternoon ...
White marble was used to build the Taj Mahal mausoleum, giving it a luminous, ethereal quality. “The marble is from a quarry in Makrana, a place in Rajasthan about 240 miles away from Agra ...
It took 20,000 men to two decades to build the Taj Mahal, the crown jewel of the Golden Triangle. Photograph by Tom Mackie, AWL Images ...