National Geographic History - 01 e 02.2022
1631 Mumtaz Mahal, beloved empress consort of Shah Jahan, dies giving birth to her 14th child while on a military campaign with ...
Loving Couple The woman who would one day rest in the Taj Mahal was born Arjumand Banu Begum in 1593 in Agra, India, to Persian ...
THE AGRA FORT The fortress was completed during the reign of Shah Jahan, who then spent his final years imprisoned within its wa ...
PERFECT GEOMETRY The Taj Mahal is flanked by a mosque (left) and a jawab (right) that mirrors the mosque. The garden is divided ...
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The Jewel of Agra Although it is not known which architect was in overall charge of planning and directing work on the Taj Mahal ...
THE WAY INSIDE The impressive doors leading into the mausoleum’s interior are richly decorated with floral motifs and calligraph ...
THE QUEEN’S TOMB The funerary monument of Mumtaz Mahal (shown) stands alongside her husband’s. Both are built of white marble an ...
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iwan opens up from each of the cardinal points of the main structure, which is crowned by an imposing double layered central dom ...
SHUTTERSTOCK FLOWERS OF PARADISE Lilies, like those on the chambers that house the royal cenotaphs, are just one of the many blo ...
3 GULDASTAS Decorative elements shaped like needles adorn the edge of the bearing walls at regular intervals. 4 DOME The central ...
FOUR GARDENS The garden of the Taj Mahal follows the pattern of a char bagh, a Persian expression that literally means “four gar ...
DISCOVERIES W hen exqui- site bronze figures be- gan flood- ing the antiquities market in the late 1920s, nobody knew much about ...
team explored Surkh Dum, a settlement site in Luristan. Prior to this dig, unautho- rized excavations in the ar- ea resulted in ...
Establishing a strong chronology for the Luristan bronzes has been challeng- ing. The extensive loot- ing destroyed much of the ...
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96 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 DISCOVERIES Luristan around the 16th century b.c. and then occu- pied central and southern Mesopotamia ...
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