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The Mughal Empire

You're Dead to Me

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The Taj Mahal - A Beautiful Mausoleum

The marble came from amakrana in ragestan, so its local. And the best sandstone came from a quarry outside of ate bosicre. The mausoleum itself fully faced in white marble and decorated with either carvings or pietre dura. There's a couple f myths associated with the tajmahal. One that the chief architect had his hands chopped off, ye e, never met again. That's a lie. Another is that there is this myth of the black tage, that shajahan intended to build across from the tajtaj on the river, in exact same structure, but in black marble rather than white

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