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BABUR'S GARDENS EMERGE FROM RUBBLE OF WAR</I> - 2004-10-21
Posted July 10th, 2007 by heritage
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Thursday, 2004, October 21Location:
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) together with the Historical Cities Support Group and UN Habitat are peeling open a slice of history at the Bagh-e-Babur, the gardens that are named for Babur, the founder of the Mughal empire which stretched at one point from the Hindukush in the north to the Deccan in the south. It's history that has been buried for over 30 years under a mountain of rubble.
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