The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the Yamuna river in Agra, India. The fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658) built this mausoleum in memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631 while giving birth to their 14th child, Gauhara Begum. The mausoleum is the […]