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	Iranica.com - STEIN, Sir (Marc) Aurel
		Stein was the third and unexpected child of Nathan and Anna Stein.
		Stein did not come from a wealthy family and, in his early years, was neither well known nor particularly well connected, but his success in Kashmir had given him confidence and, most importantly, taught him the worth of preparation, persistence, and patronage.
		Éva Apor, "Stein Aure‚l kutata‚sai Perzsia‚ban" (Explorations of Aurel Stein in Persia), Földrajzi Mu‚zeumi Tanulma‚nyok 6, 1989, pp.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/ot_grp9/ot_stein_20050919.html (4824 words)

	Marc Aurel Stein Summary
		Stein became a British subject in 1904, and was knighted in 1912.
		The British Library's Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uyghur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his travels through central Asia during the 1920s and 1930s.
		In 1901 Stein was responsible for exposing forgeries of Islam Akhun.
	www.bookrags.com /Marc_Aurel_Stein (762 words)

	Stein, sir aurel marc
		Marc Aurel Stein: Information from Answers.com Marc Aurel Stein Sir Aurel Stein Sir Marc Aurel Stein, Stein MÃ¡rk AurÃ©l in Hungarian (26 November 1862 â“ 26 October 1943), born in Budapest, was a.
		Mark Aurel Stein was born in Hungary, and became a British citizen in 1904.
		Marc Aurel Stein - Factbites Sir Mark Aurel Stein, the archeologist, scholar, explorer and geographer : born in...
	stein-sir.design4italy.org (1269 words)

	Marc Aurel Stein
		Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862 - 1943) was a Hungarian archaeologist.
		The British Library's Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uighur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his work.
		His collection is important in the study of the history of Central Asia and the art and literature of Buddhism.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Marc_Aurel_Stein.html (78 words)

	Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In three expeditions, Stein traversed 25,000 miles of central Asia and western China, thus gaining the reputation of conducting "the most daring and adventurous raids upon the ancient world".
		Stein set out on his second expedition, his most famous, in 1907.
		Although Sir Aurel Stein's expeditions were praised by the British and Indian governments, Stein will always be a "foreign devil" to the Chinese government; in their eyes, he and other foreign archeologists robbed China of its history.
	www.bangorschools.net /hs/SR/stein.html (980 words)

	CIAA: Stein Conference Abstracts
		Sir M. Aurel Stein has given scholarly attention to each of them in his notes as well as the introduction but made no attempt to connect them, probably because it was beyond the scope of his work.
		The second part focuses on Aurel Stein’s six-decade long relationship with the organisation and members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and on his donations and bequest preserved in the Stein Collections of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
		Stein fell irrevocably in love with the green Paradise of Kashmir and in Kashmiri pandits, he found scholars whose erudition was to be essential to his endeavours as a Sanskritist.
	www.soas.ac.uk /ciaa/steinabstracts.htm (2709 words)

	Hatim's Tales: Kashmiri Stories and Tales
		SIR Marc Aurel Stein, the great Hungarian scholar who translated the Rajatarangini and explored Central Asia, was adoringly remembered at a seminar held on November 16, 1998 at 1-A, Janpath, New Delhi.
		Geza spoke mainly on "Aurel Stein's Relation to the Hungarian Scholarly World" and said that Stein carried on the tradition of Cosma de Koros whose name is "the motifand life behind all Hungarian oriental studies".
		Prof P. Bhatia's "Stein's contribution to Numismatics" was a well researched paper which explored the numismatic history of Kashmir as presented by Stein in his notes on the Rajatarangini.
	www.ikashmir.net /hatimtales/author.html (1798 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Marc Aurel Stein
		Sir Marc Aurel Stein, Stein Márk Aurél in Hungarian (26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943), born in Budapest, was a Hungarian Jewish archaeologist who became a British citizen.
		Stein discovered manuscripts in the previously lost Tocharian languages of the Tarim Basin, and recorded numerous archaeological sites especially in Iran and Balochistan.
		When he was resting from his extended journeys into Central Asia, he spent most of his time living in a tent in the spectacularly beautiful alpine meadow called Gulmarg (or 'Meadow of Roses').
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Aurel_Stein (592 words)

	IDP British Collections
		Stein's second expedition (1906-8) took him back to previously-visited and new sites of the southern Silk Road where he carried out further excavations, before moving eastwards to Dunhuang in order to study and excavate at the Han-dynasty defenses to the north of the town.
		Stein's original material was divided between London (the British Museum and the India Office Library) and India, whose government had provided co-sponsorship for his expeditions.
		Stein's papers, including his expedition diaries, letters, account books etc. are largely housed in the Western Manuscript Department of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
	idp.bl.uk /pages/collections_en.a4d (2864 words)

	Nityanand Shastri Kashmir Research Institute (NSKRI)
		It was in the late summer of 1900 that Sir Aurel Stein, after leaving the house of his host Macartney who was the representative of the British government in Kashgar, went to Khotan.
		Stein was determined to confront this forgerer who had managed to dupe learned scholars of entire Europe and England by engaging their attention.
		Stein feared that the shock could be too devastating for Hornle after having professed and publicised too much on these forgeries.
	www.unmesh.com /nov98.html (5502 words)

	The Lives of Aurel Stein
		These were remarkably feats, but Stein's important Central Asian expeditions began in 1900 and ended in 1916; neither before nor after was his life idle or boring.
		She is also better at fitting Stein's acts and discoveries into the larger pictures of which they are parts --- she tells us about the Great Game, about the early days of Silk Road archaeology, about why the RAF had those convenient air-fields in the Iraq for Stein's aerial surveys.
		The extreme case was Stein's unending series of attempts, spread over forty-odd years of wanderings, to obtain permission to explore in Afghanistan, particularly at Balkh, the ancient Bactra, hoping to uncover the remains of the Greco-Buddhist civilization of Hellenistic Bactria.
	cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/reviews/lives-of-aurel-stein (960 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Archaeology \| Wounds of time to Dunhuang grottoes aired
		In February 1906, Marc Aurel Stein, a Jewish employee of the British Government, came to China and - learning of Wang's find - rushed to Dunhuang.
		When Stein was finally allowed into the sutra cave, he was overcome with awe.
		Stein's discovery was viewed as one of the greatest findings of the 20th century.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=4,183,0,0,1,0 (1063 words)

	TURFAN EXPEDITIONS - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)© (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Stein (1862-1943) had twice passed the Turfan area during his second expedition to Xinjiang (1906-1908).
		The small Sogdian fragments found by Stein in the Turfan area (as well as in other places) are published or referred to by N. Sims-Williams, "The Sogdian fragments of the British Library", Indo-Iranian Journal 18, 1976, pp.
		On the Stein collection in general see H. Wang, Handbook of the Stein collections of the Silk Road, London 1995, on Sir Marc Aurel Stein: A. Walker, Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road, London 1995.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Archaeology/Greater-Iran/turfan_expeditions.htm (5870 words)

	The expeditions of Aurel Stein presented in Non Famous section
		Stein was intrigued by the travels of Xuanzang.
		Stein also found numerous coins dating from the Han dynasty.
		By the time Sir Aurel Stein began his excavations, the Silk Road had transformed from an ancient path of cultural exchange to the subject of historical investigation.
	www.newsfinder.org /more.php?id=1090_0_1_0_M (1074 words)

	Niya yields buried secrets
		More than 2,000 years later, in 1901, a British explorer named Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) trekked into the ruins of the kingdom far out in the desert, and the world then heard for the first time the name of Niya - as dreamlike as the Uygur legend about it that you have just read.
		Niya, believed to have flourished from the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD, has remained the best preserved and one of the largest ruins of the city states that were scattered along the ancient Silk Road about 1,500 years ago.
		In the early 1900s, The explorer Stein astounded the world with a find of more than 700 wooden tablets bearing the Kharoshiti language, which he collected in his four visits to Niya.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-03/12/content_314240.htm (1292 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sir Marc Aurel Stein originally suggested that this large patchwork was an altar-cloth, though it has now been identified as a kasaya, a Buddhist monastic robe.
		The symmetrical arrangement of patches along a central vertical axis is consistent with the prescribed form for a kasaya.
		Aurel Stein, Serindia: detailed report of explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, 5 vols.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/print?OBJ2083 (266 words)

	Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books: List of Books in English
		The aim of Stein’s third expedition was to find traces of ancient communication routes between East and West.
		Stein collected these paintings during his second expedition to Central Asia (1906-08).
		During the second expedition, Stein discovered a statue of a winged angel at Miran.
	dsr.nii.ac.jp /toyobunko/language/en.html.en (1268 words)

	Society for Asian Art — Arts of Asia Lecture Series Fall 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 1900, the chance discovery of a sealed chamber, once the memorial chapel for a leading monk, filled to the brim with manuscripts and paintings, soon attracted world-wide attention, as first Marc Aurel Stein, then Paul Pelliot and several others, took away these ancient documents by the thousand.
		There have been a number of important publications, both of the caves and of the portable paintings and documents from the Library Cave, and the latter are being systematically digitised for consultation in great detail on the worldwide web through the International Dunhuang Project, with support from the Mellon Foundation and others.
		Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian born British archaeological explorer, the first westerner to investigate the contents of the so-called
	www.artsofasia.org /fall2005/nov4_whitfield.htm (532 words)

	The Silk Road: Trade, travel, war and faith
		In its heyday, towns along it were open to influences from all the major world civilisations at the time, especially India to the south, China to the east, and the Turks to the north.
		The Hungarian-born explorer Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) fought rivals at the turn of the last century to be the first to uncover these long-lost civilisations.
		In 1907 Stein came to a previously walled-up cave near Dunhuang ('the blazing beacon') in north-west China, where thousands of manuscripts, paintings and a few printed items had been stored for almost 1000 years.
	www.bl.uk /whatson/exhibitions/silkroad/main.html (257 words)

	Amazon.com: "Marc Aurel Stein": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Meanwhile, at the other end of the Taklamakan another European traveller, Marc Aurel Stein, had already started on the first of three great archaeological raids on the Silk Road.
		The Hungarian- British archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein had started the looting when he arrived in 1907 to find that a few years before a monk had accidentally...
		Marc Aurel -- Book hotels anywhere with HotelClub.com and save 60% off normal rates.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Marc-Aurel-Stein (577 words)

	Notebook
		The men, simple soldiers torn from their loved ones, dreaded the icy wind which 'goes whistling through the Gate of Jade.' Yet the writing-slips on which they strove to improve their calligraphy are a silent witness to their efforts to better themselves in spite of such terrible conditions.
		The strategic importance of Tun-huang is evident from the story that in circa 104 B.C. the Son of Heaven fell into a violent rage when he heard the news that General Li Kuang-li, who had ridden out of the city with ten thousand men to meet the Ta-Wan [Ferchana], had been defeated.
		The rest of the journey is by jeep, which takes the new desert road, while the horse-drawn carts with their curiously large wheels [the same as those painted in the frescoes of the caves] follow the old track taken by explorers and archaeologists such as Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot.
	www.noteaccess.com /Texts/Silva/Intro.htm (3483 words)

	Iranica.com - TURFAN EXPEDITIONS
		M.A. Stein (1862-1943) had twice passed the Turfan area during his second expedition to Xinjiang (1906-1908).
		The small Sogdian fragments found by Stein in the Turfan area (as well as in other places) are published or referred to by N.
		Wang, Handbook of the Stein collections of the Silk Road, London 1995, on Sir Marc Aurel Stein: A.
	www.iranica.com /articles/sup/Turfan_Expeditions.html (5822 words)

	About Hungary
		Several Hungarian travellers and orientalists made pilgrimages to the ruins of Persepolis, or as it is today known Takhte Djamshid, ranging from Ármin Vámbéry (1832-1913) to Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), who researched in English colours but remained a Hungarian, and whose expeditions over the territory of historical Iran produced tremendous results for archaeology.
		But Aurel Stein is also associated with the exploration of the written records of Baktria and Khotan saka, belonging to the Central Iranian epoch of the Iranian family of languages, albeit defunct languages today, to give a new direction to Iranian.
		Stein won world fame through the expeditions he ran to Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Iran.
	www.combinedendeavor.areur.army.mil /pages/hungary/orient.htm (6787 words)

	Marc Aurel Stein - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Marc Aurel Stein - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia
		Sir Marc Aurel stone (* 26 November 1862 in Budapest; † 26 October 1943 in Kabul) was a discoverer and an archaeologist.
		From 1900 to 1916 (1900, 1907, 1915) it led three expeditions to inside Asia, which served particularly for the study of the cultures at the silk road.
	cleverpedia.com /Marc_Aurel_Stein (110 words)

	Stein, Aurel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Stein war einer der bedeutendsten Archäologen auf dem Gebiet der Zentralasienforschung.
		Stein, M. , A.>: Ruins of Desert Cathay.
		Detailed report of explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, carried out and described by Aurel Stein.
	www.orientarch.uni-halle.de /ca/tutorial/inf_ste1.htm (198 words)

	NS Kashmir Research Institute: Unmesh
		Lokesh Chandra on the influence of Germanic scholarship on Sir Aurel Stein, Prof.
		These were quite familiar to Stein as similar block-printed papers could be found in Calcutta also.
		He too has his modest memorial -- that small corner of the British Library's oriental department near the Tun-Huang manuscripts where his once venerated "old books" are preserved for posterity.
	www.koausa.org /NSKRI/Unmesh/nov98.html (5459 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - The Art of Central Asia - The Stein Collection
		Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), was an archaeologist who went on three successful expeditions to Central Asia over a 14-year period beginning in 1900.
		Sir Marc Aurel Stein was born in Hungary and later became a British citizen.
		“Aurel Stein: The Last Explorer: The Silk Road Under Sand.” Bangor School Department.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/worldhist/steinasia.html (304 words)

	Excavated house at Niya Site, Chinese Central Asia (1913) by Sir Marc Aurel Stein - the Jerwood photography project at ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the course of three major expeditions to Chinese Central Asia between 1900 and 1916, the Hungarian-born explorer and archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein took many thousands of photographs recording the landscapes, peoples and sites of the ancient Silk Road.
		Stein had taken up photography in the 1890s and used it throughout his career, both as a tool of archaeological record and to illustrate his more popular published accounts of his travels.
		This photograph shows his excavations of the buried oasis settlement near Niya, on the southern arm of the Silk Road.
	www.bl.uk /jerwood/jerwoodexploration8.html (177 words)

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