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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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    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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    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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    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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  • to be deduced from his own writing, a major scholar of which is Mark Aurel Stein. Kalhana was born in a Hindu Brahmin family to a Kashmiri minister, Chanpaka...
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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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    languages that were discovered by Frenchman Paul Pelliot and British man Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, from 1906 to 1909. The majority...
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    Dunhuang manuscripts in 1900 by Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu and sold to Aurel Stein in 1907. They are dated back to 11 May 868. The Chinese Diamond Sutra...
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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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    was, ironically, Hoernlé's report that re-asserted the suspicions of Aurel Stein — renowned archaeologist and Indo-Iranian scholar — regarding the authenticity...
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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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  • 1930), Romanian writer Aurel Saulea, Moldovan politician Aurel Stein (1862–1943), Hungarian-born British archaeologist Aurel Stodola (1859–1942), Slovak...
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  • Andy Stein, American saxophone and violin player Arthur Stein (political scientist) (born 1950), American professor of political science Aurel Stein (1862–1943)...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • in 1876.[citation needed] He served as its vice principal from 1861. Aurel Stein, the noted Hungarian-British archaeologist, was principal from 1888 to...
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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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    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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    the collections kept growing. Emil Torday collected in Central Africa, Aurel Stein in Central Asia, D. G. Hogarth, Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence excavated...
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    study. He would also later sell numerous manuscripts to archaeologist Aurel Stein, who took a largely random selection of the works. Later, Paul Pelliot...
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    Hungarian-British explorer Aurel Stein and the French sinologist Paul Pelliot, contain numerous Zhuangzi fragments dating to the early Tang dynasty. Stein and Pelliot...
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  • Genealogical History. McFarland. pp. 51–. ISBN 978-0-7864-7684-8. Mark Aurel Stein; Sir Aurel Stein (1907). Ancient Khotan: Detailed Report of Archaeological Explorations...
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  • the Shaolin Monastery—and Bodhidharma—founder of Chan/Zen Buddhism. Aurel Stein discovered 5 letters written in Sogdian known as the "Ancient Letters"...
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    excavated by Aurel Stein in 1917, during his third expedition, and several thousand Tangut manuscript fragments recovered by Stein are in the Stein Collection...
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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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    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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    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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    burials include: Major John Cook VC (1843–1879), 5th Gurkha Rifles. Aurel Stein (1862–1943), British-Hungarian archaeologist. Henning Haslund-Christensen...
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    [Later Han] Gaochang Jun [Jin] Xi Zhou [Tang] Yarkhoto [modern name]. Aurel Stein has suggested that the name Yarkhoto is a combination of Turkic and Mongolian...
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