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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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    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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    Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Paul Pelliot and Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu, China, from 1906 to 1909. The...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    such as Christian Lassen (1800-1876), Max Müller (1823-1900), Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), C.F. Oldham and Jane Macintosh. Danino notes that "the 1500...
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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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    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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  • political science Aurel Stein (1862–1943), Hungarian-British archaeologist Ben Stein (born 1944), American actor, writer, and attorney Blake Stein (born 1973)...
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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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    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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  • 1930), Romanian writer Aurel Saulea, Moldovan politician Aurel Stein (1862–1943), Hungarian-born British archaeologist Aurel Stodola (1859–1942), Slovak...
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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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  • 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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    Historical and Cultural Sites (Gansu) Bhadrakalpikasutra Dunhuang Star Chart Aurel Stein Mogao Caves Paul Pelliot Yangguan Yueyaquan The Singing Sand Dunes on...
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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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  • 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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  • Ernst Edward Aurel Stein (19 September 1891, in Jaworzno – 25 February 1945, in Fribourg) was an Austrian-Jewish Byzantinist and a historian of Late Antiquity...
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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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    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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    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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