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Photo: Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim via Wikimedia Commons (GFDL 1.2)It was a widow's gift. Empress Bega Begum built it in 1565 for the husband she lost, the first garden-tomb in India and the blueprint for the Taj Mahal.
The tomb of Mughal emperor Humayun, commissioned by his widow Empress Bega Begum in 1565, is widely regarded as the direct architectural precursor to the Taj Mahal. It was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent, built on a Persian charbagh (four-part garden) plan. Over 150 Mughal family members are buried within the complex. In 1857, the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar took refuge here before his capture by the British.
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108 stone steps lead down to what was once a deep water tank, between walls built to pull your eye toward the water.
Feroz Shah Tughlaq had an Ashokan pillar moved here, and it still stands among the ruins of his fortress.
Gandhi lived here for his last 144 days, from 9 September 1947. On 30 January 1948 he was assassinated on these grounds, and a line of footsteps cast in concrete traces his last walk to the prayer meeting.