Gur-e Amir , the mausoleum of Timur (Humayun's ancestor) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, ca 1405 AD., and the inspiration for the tomb Humayun's Tomb, with his Barber 's Tomb ( Nai-ka-Gumbad ) in the foreground, Delhi, 1858 photograph. After his death on January 20, 1556, Humayun's body was first buried in his