HOW THE TAJ MAHAL WAS BUILT
”Designed and finished like a jewel, a snow-white emanation starting from a bed of cypresses and backed by a turquoise sky, pure, perfect and unutterably lovely.” —Lord George Curzon, Viceroy of India shah Jahan appointed a Persian architect, astronomer, and mathematician, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri (1580-1649) to head the architectural team. Lahauri’s assistant was a Turk … Read more