The trouble with the Taj Mahal is that it has become so overlaid with accumulated meanings as to be almost impossible to see. A billion chocolate-box images and tourist guidebooks order us to ...

Believe it or not, the Taj Mahal is actually taller than the Qutub Minar. While the internet will show both of them to be 73 meters or 240 feet tall, the Taj Mahal surpasses the Qutub Minar by at ...

The famous tourist destination still has plenty to offer. 6 min read "The Taj Mahal shows three faces,” says Nicholas Wapshott, a British writer, journalist, and father. “In the early morning ...

One of the most famous and prominent examples of marble inlay is the Taj Mahal in India. The descendants of the 17th-century artisans who worked on the Taj Mahal still make a living using the ...

The lush and sprawling lawns in front of the Taj Mahal were actually developed under British rule. The original gardens contained lush foliage and 60 exquisite flowerbeds. Contrary to popular ...

Trump’s Taj Mahal opened in April 1990 in Atlantic City, but six months later, “defaulted on interest payments to bondholders as his finances went into a tailspin,” The Washington Post’s ...