The Taj Mahal is a site to behold in India. It is an architectural and aesthetic wonder.
Many people think it is a palace, but it is actually a mausoleum or tomb.
It was built by the Emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. The legend goes that when Mumtaz Mahal died, the King was so overcome with grief that his beard turned from black to white in one night. He was so sad that he commissioned the Taj Mahal to be built in the Imperial City of Agra. The Taj Mahal is made of white marble inlaid with black marble and forty varieties of semi precious stones. It took twenty thousand men twenty two years to build it.