Taj Mahal

Assembled from 29 blocks · 2 evidence · 28 related

1. Story
2. The white marble tomb built at Agra by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, commissioned in 1632 and with the wider complex completed by 1653. Construction is reported to have employed some twenty thousand workers under a board of architects led by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983 and elected a New7Wonder in 2007. Like the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus two thousand years earlier, it is a tomb that became a wonder because of the scale of a private grief.
3. Knowledge
4. Taj Mahal
5. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
6. New7Wonders Foundation
7. Connections
8. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
9. New7Wonders Foundation
10. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
11. Taj Mahal
12. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
13. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
14. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
15. Mausoleum sculpture is removed to the British Museum
16. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
17. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
18. Petra
19. Machu Picchu
20. Taj Mahal
21. Great Wall of China
22. Chichen Itza
23. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
24. Egypt forces the Great Pyramid out of the New7Wonders ballot
25. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
26. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
27. Evidence
28. Inscription years and property identities for the modern-list sites and Olympia.
29. The campaign's own account of the seven elected sites, the reported vote volume, and the special status given to the Great Pyramid after Egypt's objection.