Humayun's tomb

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Humayun's tomb (Persian: Maqbara-i Humayun) is the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun located in Delhi, India. The tomb was commissioned by Humayun's first wife and chief consort, Empress Bega Begum, under her patronage in 1558, and designed by the Persian architects Mirak Mirza Ghiyas and his son, Sayyid Muhammad, whom she personally chose. It was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent, and is located in Nizamuddin East, Delhi, close to the Dina-panah Citadel, also known as Purana Qila (Old Fort), that Humayun founded in 1538. It was also the first structure to use red sandstone at such a scale. The tomb was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993, and has, thereafter, undergone extensive restoration work that has since concluded. Beside the main tomb enclosure of Humayun, several smaller monuments dot the pathway leading up to it from the main entrance in the West, including one that even pre-dates the main tomb itself by twenty years: it is the tomb complex of Isa Khan...

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