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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 known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia.
Sir Aurel Stein was a Hungarian–British archaeologist and geographer whose travels and research in central Asia, particularly in Chinese Turkistan, revealed much about its strategic role in history. Principal of the Oriental College, Lahore, Punjab, India (now in Pakistan; 1888–99), in 1892 he.
Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862 – 1943), a Hungarian-born, British archaeologist, is largely credited to have rediscovered The Silk Road – an ancient network of trade routes across Central Asia which connected the East and West – following three expeditions he made to the far western regions of China in 1900, 1906 and 1913.
Marc Aurel Stein would become quite likely “the most prodigious combination of scholar, explorer, archaeologist and geographer of his generation.” His wide-ranging interests took him to India, Iran, and Iraq, but he is best remembered for his explorations and discoveries of Silk Road sites in the bleakest regions of Chinese Turkestan (now ...
Sep 4, 2004 · Sir Aurel Stein is one of the least known of the Great British Archaeological explorers of the earlier 20th century. He was, in fact, a Hungarian Jew, born in Budapest in 1862, though his parents prudently had him baptized into the Lutheran Church.
This is a vast Buddhist cave temple complex filled with magnificent wall paintings and clay sculptures primarily dating from the 4th to the 14th centuries. Stein arrived there in 1907 on his second expedition to China, which was funded by the Government of India (60%) and the British Museum (40%).
Mark Aurel Stein, now thirty-nine years old, left Mohand Marg in May 1900 on a year's special duty, with a grant of ?600 and an Indian surveyor, on the first of his great expeditions.
A day of presentations focusing on objects brought back by Sir Aurel Stein from the Silk Roads, many of which were officially accessioned at the Museum in 1919, one hundred years ago. Download Free PDF. View PDF.
Oct 26, 2020 · Aurel Stein was the consummate desert archaeologist, but not of those “tame deserts” of Arabia, America, or South Africa “which might impress the town dweller … and in which whole tribes can wander about for long periods sure of finding water and grazing.”
STEIN, SIR AUREL ( Mark ; 1862–1943), British archaeologist. Stein was born in Budapest, the son of a prosperous merchant. His family, although Jewish on both sides, were advocates of assimilation and Stein was baptized as a Lutheran and educated at Christian schools.
