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The Taj Mahal is an Islamic ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall.[1]

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The Taj Mahal is featured in The Invaders.

In 1,000 years after people, although it appears eternal, time is running out for the Taj Mahal. The show then gave information that it was built in the 17th century by emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife. While the marble walls is 15 feet thick in places, it stands on clay over India's most dangerous seismic zone. An earthquake strike Agra, and as the giant quake liquefies the clay soil, the minarets fall away before the stone and marble of the domes collapse and the entire mausoleum structure crumbles.

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