A modern day map of India showing where Lahore and Delhi are located After Babur died, his son Humayun became emperor. At this time, the Mughal Empire was still growing and needed a strong ...

Another striking piece is a hand-coloured map of the northern Indian subcontinent from 1728 by Seutter, a stunning example of German cartography. It shows the vast expanse of the Mughal Empire ...

One of the highlights of the exhibition is a 1687 map made by the Wagner cartography company in Germany, which shows territories under the Mughal empire with an illustration of the Red Fort to ...

But he also presided over the Mughal Empire, a fabulously wealthy dynasty ... Snuffbox adorned with maps, from Germany, 1757. With tobacco from America, gems from South East Asia, and the metal ...

Humayun, the second Mughal emperor, is often remembered for his tumultuous reign and struggles to maintain control over his empire. Born on March 6, 1508, in Kabul, he was the son of Babur ...

She played an unprecedented role in running the vast Mughal empire. Historian Ruby Lal explains why the history of her leadership is important to understand today. She was named Mihr un-Nisa at ...

It has been 40 years since the prize-winning historian William Dalrymple found his muse and launched himself into a ...

For more than 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme in northern India. How was it possible that a Muslim, ethnically Turkish, Persian-speaking dynasty established itself in the Indian ...

There are many historic narratives which say that Mughals have done many loots in several temples of the country and have ...

No animal has had as profound an impact on human history as the horse, says Raiders, Rulers and Traders: The Horse and the ...

At the age of 53, Gulbadan Begum - daughter of Babur, founder of the Mughal empire - and 11 women from the royal household - left the confines of a harem in Fatehpur Sikri to set off on a journey ...