Beneath a Marble Sky Trivia

Beneath a Marble Sky is historical fiction, so most of it is true. But guess who Shors made up? Yup. Khondamir. Oh, and Isa and Jahanara were never a couple. Womp, womp. (Source)

John Shors has caught the travel bug, bad, and he wants you to catch it, too—so much so that he leads his own literary travel tours to the different places he's written about. (Source)

Over 1000 elephants were "employed" to help build the Taj Mahal. (Really? What were they paid with, peanuts?) (Source)

There's a popular myth that Shah Jahan intended to build a mirroring black marble Taj Mahal across the river for his own mausoleum. (Source)