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The Gujari Mahal Archeological Museum or State Archaeological Museum, sometimes called the "Gwalior Fort Museum", is a state museum in Gwalior, located in the fortress of Gujari Mahal. [1] It displays numerous artifacts of the region, including a fragment of the Garuda capital of the Heliodorus pillar from Vidisha .
The outer structure of the Gujari Mahal has survived in an almost total state of preservation, the interior has been now converted into an archaeological museum. Within Gwalior Fort, also built by Man Singh Tomar, is the Man Mandir Palace, [18] built between 1486 CE and 1517 CE. The tiles that once adorned its exterior have not survived, but at ...
This chhatri (cupola or domed shaped pavilion) was built as a memorial to Bhim Singh Rana (1707–1756), a ruler of Gohad state. It was built by his successor, Chhatra Singh. Bhim Singh occupied Gwalior fort in 1740 when the Mughal Satrap, Ali Khan, surrendered. In 1754, Bhim Singh built a bhimtal (a lake) as a monument at the fort.
Grateful and captivated by her beauty, Firoz Shah Tughlaq proposed marriage to her. The Gujjar girl accepted his proposal but declined to accompany him to Delhi. Determined to be with his beloved, Firoz Shah Tughlaq shifted his royal seat to Hisar in Haryana and built the majestic Gujari Mahal in her honor and built his own palace complex ...
The Gujari Mahal at Gwalior Fort was built by Man Singh Tomar. Other Guwaliar-nama texts include: [3] Guwaliar-nama of Badili Das; a continuation of Khadag Rai's book; Guwaliar-nama of Hiraman B. Girdhardas, a Munshi of Motmid Khan; Guwaliar-nama of Motiram and Khushal, commissioned by Captain William Bruce after the British conquest of Gwalior
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (Persian: فیروز شاه تغلق, romanized: Fīrūz Shāh Tughlaq; 1309 – 20 September 1388) was the 19th sultan of Delhi from 1351 to 1388. [1] [2] [3] A Muslim ruler from the Tughlaq dynasty, He succeeded his cousin Muhammad bin Tughlaq following the latter's death at Thatta in Sindh, as Muhammad Bin Tughlaq had gone in pursuit of Taghi the rebellious Muslim ...
Greece is home to the first advanced civilizations in Europe beginning with the Cycladic culture on the islands of the Aegean Sea around 3200 BC, [177] and the Minoan civilisation in Crete (2700–1500 BC). [178] [179] The Minoans built large palaces decorated with frescoes and wrote in the undeciphered script known as Linear A.
Sumer (or Šumer) was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, [6] located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) from the time of the earliest records in the mid 4th millennium BC until the rise of Babylonia in the late 3rd millennium BC. [7] [6] The term "Sumerian" applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language.