Fatehpur Sikri (Pers., Fatḥpūr Sīkrī) is a town in Uttar Pradesh, India, thirty-seven kilometres from the city of Agra. Situated at latitude N 27.091°, longitude E 77.661°, the area receives little rainfall and is near the desert of present-day Rajasthan. This small town is associated today with a large palace complex built in the second half of the tenth/sixteenth century by the Mughal emperor Akbar on a rocky ridge about one by three kilometres and adjacent to a lake, now dry. This complex, constructed almost