Topkapi Palace

Shah Abbas and his court

Ali Qapu, Safavid palace in Esfahan

Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Esfahan

Persian carpets

Blue pottery of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Persianpottery

Humayun’s Tomb

Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar’s palace

Mughal architecture of Fatehpur Sikri

Mughal painting

Jahangir and his sons

Nur Jahan,Jahangir’s

favorite wife who ruled in his

stead (Jahangir had a drug addiction)

Shah Jahanon topof theworld

Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal

Marble detail, Red Fort in Agra

TajMahal,the tomb

of Mumtaz,

Shah Jahan’s favorite

wife

Marble detail of the Taj Mahal

The Peacock Throne and the Koh-i-noor Diamond

Ming emperor Hongwu

Ming emperorYonglo

Ming painting depicting the

Forbidden City

Guardian lions in the Forbidden City

Court Life in Ming China

Blue pottery of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

The Great Wall of China,refortified during the Ming Dynasty