The Taj Mahal was originally imagined as a symbol of love, built by Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. But since its commission in the 17th century, the marble marvel has become ...

Ravaged by a toxic cocktail of environmental pollution, gross governmental neglect, and bureaucratic apathy, India’s most iconic monument — the Taj Mahal — should be “demolished,” an irate Supreme ...

The Taj Mahal is often introduced as the world’s grandest monument to love, and that version of the story is not exactly wrong. Shah Jahan commissioned it after the death of Mumtaz Mahal, his favored ...

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 tomb ...