Northern India: Delhi: Humayun's Tomb Humayun was the second Mughal (or Mogul) emperor.  The son of Babur and father of Akbar, he died in 1556.  His chief widow, a Persian from Khurasan, then commissioned the Persian Mirak Mirza Ghiyath to build an appropriate tomb.  Mirak imported his design from Herat, Afghanistan--specifically, he copied the hasht behisht, or "eight paradises," pavilion of the Terab Khana Palace there.  The style would culminate in India in the Taj Mahal, built by Humayan's great-grandson, Shah Jehan.

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