03-17-2005, 07:44 AM
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/an_architect_...ahal_legend.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->5. Why does the "mosque" face due west instead of facing Meccah? Certainly, by the seventeenth century there was no problem in orienting a building precisely!
6. Why has the Archaeological Survey of India blocked any dating of the Taj by means of Carbon-14 or thermo-luminiscnece? Any controversy over which century the Taj was built could easily be resolved. [Radiocarbon dating of a piece of wood surreptiously taken from one of the doors gave 13th century as a possible date. But more data is needed.]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Interesting.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->5. Why does the "mosque" face due west instead of facing Meccah? Certainly, by the seventeenth century there was no problem in orienting a building precisely!
6. Why has the Archaeological Survey of India blocked any dating of the Taj by means of Carbon-14 or thermo-luminiscnece? Any controversy over which century the Taj was built could easily be resolved. [Radiocarbon dating of a piece of wood surreptiously taken from one of the doors gave 13th century as a possible date. But more data is needed.]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Interesting.