Humayun's Tomb site features

The property extends across 27.04 hectares. At its centre, a high square terrace supports a red-sandstone mausoleum with four long faces and four clipped corners. A 42.5-metre white-marble double dome rises above chhatris and smaller tiled domes.

Each long face centres on a deep pointed arch. Smaller openings stack around it, while white marble outlines the red planes. Inside, a tall octagonal chamber connects to surrounding rooms and galleries. Burial cells continue through the platform below.

Outside, straight water channels and paths quarter the garden. Gateways frame the tomb at the end of each axis, and smaller funerary enclosures sit beyond the central composition.

The central mausoleum

1570. The red-sandstone mass rises from a vaulted terrace beneath a 42.5-metre marble double dome.

The charbagh

1560s–1570. Paths, pools and channels divide the garden into four principal quarters and smaller plots.

Isa Khan’s enclosure

1547. An octagonal tomb in its own garden predates Humayun’s monument and introduces the site’s layered sequence.

Arab Serai

16th century. The walled precinct is associated with craftspeople who worked on the imperial complex.

Barber’s Tomb

Late 16th century. A smaller domed tomb occupies a separate position within the main garden.

Nila Gumbad

16th century. Blue tile marks this compact tomb near the larger enclosure.