Reporting from Agra, India — India’s most famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore, once wrote that the Taj Mahal stood on the banks of the Yamuna River “like a teardrop suspended on the cheek of time.” One ...

Despite what we know, this grand structure remains a place of mystery. Lisa Cheng is a writer and editor whose wanderlust has taken her from Malaga, Spain to the Upper Irrawaddy in Myanmar. When she’s ...

This story originally appeared on Travel + Leisure. For first-time visitors to India, it’s almost impossible to skip the bucket list-worthy Taj Mahal. The mausoleum in Agra is India’s most famous ...

The seventeenth-century historian and poet Abu Talib Kalim opens his description of the world-famous Taj Mahal with these words. Here we learn that the tomb complex was intended to rival the heavens, ...

The legend of a black marble Taj Mahal, a mirror image of the original, has captivated many. But how far is it true? While French traveler Jean-Baptiste Tavernier claimed Shah Jahan planned his own ...

Here’s a look at the Taj Mahal, India’s most popular tourist attraction. The monument is located on the banks of the Yamuna River in Agra, India. The Taj Mahal was built in the 17th century by Mughal ...

In this May 11, 2018 photo, garbage covers the area by the Yamuna River near the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Credit: AP Photo/Pawan Sharma Ravaged by a toxic cocktail of environmental pollution, gross ...

The Taj Mahal is many things to many people. However, some sectors in India are now keen to rewrite the monument's history. Already beset by problems of overcrowding, pollution, apathy and ...

The Taj Story” is the latest in a slew of pseudo-historical films to emerge from Bollywood that critics say seek to erase India’s Muslim past and create a history dominated by the Hindu majority.

The Taj Mahal is India's most magnificent piece of architecture. Built nearly four centuries ago by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his beloved wife, who had borne him thirteen ...