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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    province — Herodotus, The Histories, Book III, Chapter 91, Section 4 Aurel Stein described Afridis with lighter and fair features, similar to their Dardic...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    discovered in the "Library Cave" of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, China, by Aurel Stein in 1907, and is now in the collection of the British Library in London...
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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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    Tashkurgan, while Albert Herrmann placed it in the vicinity of Daraut-Kurgan. Aurel Stein, who perhaps most extensively travelled this region, suggested the valley...
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    Alexander offered to lead him to the best point of access. The geographer Aurel Stein suggested that Aornos was located on Pir Sar – a mountain spur above...
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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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    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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  • 1930), Romanian writer Aurel Saulea, Moldovan politician Aurel Stein (1862–1943), Hungarian-born British archaeologist Aurel Stodola (1859–1942), Slovak...
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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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  • 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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    Teachings of Mani, the Awakened One of Light, rediscovered at Dunhuang by Aurel Stein (1862–1943); in this text Mani is interpreted as an incarnation of Laozi...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • easy one to resolve. The first person to explore this in detail was Aurel Stein, coming from the west through Kashgar and entering the Taklamakan desert...
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    In summer it is a tourist destination for trekking and camping. Sir Aurel Stein was the first person to explore the place, pitching his camp in the summer...
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