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Tomb of the Moghul Emperor Babur (r. 1526-d. 1530).

1967
Emperor Babur devoted a large part of his memoires to describing the plants and flowers he found in the Kabul Valley. He loved Kabul and requested to be buried in a simple grave in garden he had created in Kabul garden specifying that nothing be built over it to prevent the sun and the rain from falling upon it. His Afghan wife, Bibi Mubarak Yusufzai, fulfilled this request in 1544. The original inscribed headstone was placed here in 1607 when the Emperor Jehangir visited Kabul; the grave stone in the 1930s by King Nadir Shah.
Photo: Ben Sargent.

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KABUL I: BEGINNINGS
1967<br /> Emperor Babur devoted a large part of his memoires to describing the plants and flowers he found in the Kabul Valley. He loved Kabul and requested to be buried in a simple grave in garden he had created in Kabul garden specifying that nothing be built over it to prevent the sun and the rain from falling upon it. His Afghan wife, Bibi Mubarak Yusufzai, fulfilled this request in 1544. The original inscribed headstone was placed here in 1607 when the Emperor Jehangir visited Kabul; the grave stone in the 1930s by King Nadir Shah. <br /> Photo: Ben Sargent.