If you arrived at the Taj Mahal in India before the sun rises on the day of the summer solstice (which usually occurs June 21), and walked up to the north-central portion of the garden where two ...

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, ...

A photograph of the Taj Mahal feels almost incomplete without its reflection in the clear water channel in the gardens in front. One of the most distinct elements of Mughal architecture, these gardens ...

Introduction / Milo Cleveland Beach -- Reflections of Paradise / Elizabeth B. Moynihan -- Botanical Symbolism and Function at the Mahatb Bagh / David L. Lentz -- Waterworks and Landscape Design in the ...