<Tr> <Th> Inscription </Th> <Td> 1993 (17th Session) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> (edit on Wikidata) </Td> </Tr> <P> Humayun's tomb (Maqbaera e Humayun) is the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun in Delhi, India . The tomb was commissioned by Humayun's first wife and chief consort, Empress Bega Begum (also known as Haji Begum), in 1569 - 70, and designed by Mirak Mirza Ghiyas, a Persian architect chosen by her . It was the first garden - tomb on the Indian subcontinent, and is located in Nizamuddin East, Delhi, India, close to the Dina - panah Citadel, also known as Purana Qila (Old Fort), that Humayun founded in 1533 . 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 since then has undergone extensive restoration work, which is complete . Besides 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 Niyazi, an Afghan noble in Sher Shah Suri's court of the Suri dynasty, who fought against the Mughals, constructed in 1547 CE . </P> <P> The complex encompasses the main tomb of the Emperor Humayun, which houses the graves of Bega Begum herself, Hamida Begum, and also Dara Shikoh, great - great - grandson of Humayun and son of the later Emperor Shah Jahan, as well as numerous other subsequent Mughals, including Emperor Jahandar Shah, Farrukhsiyar, Rafi Ul - Darjat, Rafi Ud - Daulat, Muhammad Kam Bakhsh and Alamgir II . It represented a leap in Mughal architecture, and together with its accomplished Charbagh garden, typical of Persian gardens, but never seen before in India, it set a precedent for subsequent Mughal architecture . It is seen as a clear departure from the fairly modest mausoleum of his father, the first Mughal Emperor, Babur, called Bagh - e Babur (Gardens of Babur) in Kabul (Afghanistan). Though the latter was the first Emperor to start the tradition of being buried in a paradise garden . Modelled on Gur - e Amir, the tomb of his ancestor and Asia's conqueror Timur in Samarkand, it created a precedent for future Mughal architecture of royal mausolea, which reached its zenith with the Taj Mahal, at Agra . </P>

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