The Taj Mahal was built out of white marble by the Mughal emperor of India to house his wife’s tomb. The UNESCO World Heritage Center refers to the building — which took over two decades to complete — ...

It took Shah Jahan 22 years to construct the Taj Mahal and 20,000 men toiled ceaselessly to fulfill his dream. Built of the finest white marble and inlaid with precious stones, the Taj Mahal is ...

Every year lakhs of tourists from India and abroad come to see this white marble building. But do you know that there is a basement inside the Taj Mahal which has been kept closed for years?

Every year for the past decade or so, more than three million travelers have visited India's Taj Mahal. The white marble monument—completed over some 15 years by the emperor Shah Jahan as a ...

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 ...

High SPM levels are known to cause discolouration of the Taj Mahal's iconic white marble, turning it a yellowish hue due to pollutant deposition. A report by a Rajya Sabha committee had earlier ...

The Taj Mahal is actually an integrated complex of structures with the white domed marble mausoleum being its most significant component. Entrusted to a board-of-architects by the Emperor Shah ...

Serious air pollution surrounding these sites has led to the deterioration of the white marble, stone inlays and sandstone of ... The planned construction of a new industrial complex near the Taj ...