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Restoration work on Isa Khan's tomb in New Delhi led to the discovery of the country's oldest sunken garden. Restorers at the Isa Khan's tomb in the precincts of the Humayun's Tomb World Heritage Site discovered that the Isa Khan's tomb stood within a hitherto unknown sunken garden. The sunken garden predates the famed gardens that the Mughals built and popularised. Pieces of underlying archaeology were also uncovered at the site.
History remembers Isa Khan finds as a brave and valiant noble under Sher Shah Suri, the Afghan ruler who had overthrown Humayun. His tomb built in 1547 is octagonal in shape and has exceptional decorative detailing.
The sunken garden Isa Khan's Tomb site predates the Humanyun's Tomb garden by two decades. Isa Khan's garden tomb is the earliest example of a sunken garden in India attached to a tomb. The concept of a sunken garden attached to a tomb was later found manifestation at Akbar's Tomb and at the Taj Mahal.
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