Every
year for the past decade, more than four million travelers have visited
Taj Mahal in India. The white marble monument which completed over some
15 years by Shah Jahan, the emperor, as a memorial to his wife, Mumtaz
Mahal, who died in childbirth in 1631. It rises on a three-acre site on
the Yamuna River in the northern city of Agra. In the mid 1990, the Taj's splendors surrounded by a walled garden and fronted by a reflecting pool, prompting a millions dollar restoration effort spearheaded by the Indian government. The massive undertaking includes a restoration of the massive red sandstone main gates and scrubbing the marble exterior, including the replacement of semiprecious inlay.
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