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    Sir Marc Aurel Stein, KCIE, FRAS, FBA (Hungarian: Stein Márk Aurél; 26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily...
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    of Tibet. Aurel Stein was the first archaeologist to study the ruins at Miran systematically. The fort was first visited briefly by Stein on December...
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    resulted in Lop Nur drying up may be the reason why Loulan had perished. Aurel Stein made further excavations in 1906 and 1914 around the old lake of Lop...
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    reliefs, and paper documents from a site known locally as Dandān-Uiliq, Aurel Stein set off in the footsteps of Hedin, accompanied by two of his guides and...
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    excavating a stupa outside city walls some 400 m (1,300 ft) westward. Sir Aurel Stein excavated Khara-Khoto during his third Central Asian expedition from...
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    them to Paul Pelliot and Aurel Stein for a very low price. Knowing the philological value of the Dunhuang manuscripts, Stein and Pelliot bought them from...
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    Hungarian-born British archaeologist Aurel Stein who was on an archaeological expedition in the area in 1907. Stein negotiated with Wang to allow him to...
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    influences. Its treasures and dangers have been vividly described by Aurel Stein, Sven Hedin, Albert von Le Coq, and Paul Pelliot. Mummies, some 4000...
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  • to be deduced from his own writing, a major scholar of which is Mark Aurel Stein. Srëë Kalhandeva was born in a Hindu Brahmin family to a Kashmiri minister...
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    Dunhuang manuscripts in 1900 by Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu and sold to Aurel Stein in 1907. It dates back to May 11, 868 CE and is broadly considered to...
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  • Abû Zayd Hasan (vers 916). Paris Éditions Bossard. p. 76. Mark Aurel Stein; Sir Aurel Stein (1907). Ancient Khotan: Detailed Report of Archaeological Explorations...
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  • northwestern China and Central Asia particularly in collaboration with Aurel Stein. Born in India to a Protestant missionary family from Germany, he completed...
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    century, European explorers such as Sven Hedin, Albert von Le Coq and Sir Aurel Stein all recounted their discoveries of desiccated bodies in their search...
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    under Chinese suzerainty. Later it was conquered by Tibet. In 1900, Aurel Stein set out on an expedition to western China and the Taklamakan Desert....
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    are scarce. A late 19th century account by the British archaeologist Aurel Stein describes the temple's walls as intact to a height of approximately 20...
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    which distinguished them thousands of years ago." Historian Sir Marc Aurel Stein identified the modern Khakha Rajputs of Azad Kashmir as the descendants...
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    period the Ghaggar river had already dried up. Between 1940 and 1943, Aurel Stein undertook 2 expeditions to along the Ghaggar-Hakra River to find physical...
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  • Mark or Marc Stein may refer to: Sir Aurel Stein (Marc Aurel Stein, 1862–1943), Hungarian-British archaeologist Mark Stein (musician) (born 1947), American...
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    explorers Ferdinand von Richthofen, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Sven Hedin and Aurel Stein visited and studied the area. It is also likely that Swedish soldier...
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    of ancient Mesopotamia. The site was discovered and investigated by Aurel Stein in the early 1900s. Beginning in 1967, the site was excavated by the...
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    which we have any knowledge was obtained by the archaeological explorer Aurel Stein; a fragment from an ancient settlement near Hotan, which was buried by...
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  • field, in particular East Asian numismatics, Silk Road Numismatics, Sir Aurel Stein and his collections, and textiles as money. She was joint Honorary Secretary...
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  • politician Aurel Rău (born 1930), Romanian writer Aurel Saulea, Moldovan politician Aurel Stein (1862–1943), Hungarian-born British archaeologist Aurel Stodola...
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  • it was not understood until 1909 that it contained text in Sogdian. Aurel Stein discovered 5 letters written in Sogdian known as the "Ancient Letters"...
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    The culture is named after an archaeological site discovered by Sir Aurel Stein. More than 100 settlement sites are known but very few are excavated...
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    Strong and Helen Wang, "Sir Aurel Stein's Medals at the Royal Geographical Society", in Helen Wang (ed.) Sir Aurel Stein, Colleagues and Collections (British...
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    3 km (2 mi) to the south, and Kyzyl-Eshme is 5 km (3 mi) to the east. Aurel Stein suggested that this was the location of the "Stone Tower" that Ptolemy...
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    an early age. It appears from sources, such as documents found by Sir Aurel Stein and others, that by the 4th century they may have monopolized trade between...
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    Kalhana's Rajatarangini: a chronicle of the kings of Kaśmir by Marc Aurel Stein In the Guise of Poetry — Kalhaṇa Reconsidered. In: Śāstrārambha. Inquiries...
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    were hosted, one during Christmas and Easter. Central Asian explorer Aurel Stein also visited Gulmarg during this period. After the end of British rule...
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