Inside the Qutb Shahi Tomb

These are simple, unadorned graves that we found inside the tomb structure

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March 9th 2006
Last weekend, I traveled with a group of HMI staff and students to the medieval Islamic city of Bidar. Bidar is located about 150 km east of Hyderabad in the neighboring state of Karnataka, and was the capital of two Deccan Muslim dynasties, the Bahmanis and the Barid Shahis, from about 1400 to the 1600’s. Bidar is famous for its fort and for the many tombs in the city that house many of the ... read more

Asia » India » Karnataka

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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