The mausoleum’s initial design, outlined by one of the country’s few crypt design-build firms, was uninspired — essentially a three-story-tall plaster box. “A garage would’ve been a ...

Second, ‘Take care of the children.’ Third, ‘Build a funerary tomb over my grave. This should be a symbol of love.’ That is the reason for the Taj Mahal.” Rizvi, however, points out ...

The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, in the town of Yasi, now Turkestan, was built at the time of Timur (Tamerlane), from 1389 to 1405. In this partly unfinished building, Persian master builders ...

The mausoleum in suburban Anyang, Henan province, seemed not to match the fame of its occupant, the late Eastern Han Dynasty ...