Diwan-E-Aam

This guide to Diwan-E-Aam in Agra's abandoned Mughal capital of Fatehpur Sikri opens with the crowds who once gathered at its gate each morning to petition Emperor Akbar in person. It traces why he built this entire red-sandstone city in the first place, following a Sufi holy man's fifteen sixty-nine prophecy about a son who would become Emperor Jahangir, and it raises the puzzle of why, within little more than a decade, the whole capital was deserted. Notice how the Throne Chamber ahead of you faces the rising sun.