biography
| name: |
Stein, Sir (Mark) Aurel
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pronunciation:
[stiyn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1943)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist and explorer, born in Budapest, Hungary. He held educational and archaeological posts under the Indian government, conducting a series of expeditions in Chinese Turkestan and C Asia, tracing the ancient caravan routes between China and the West (1900–30). His discoveries included the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas near Tan Huang, walled up since the 11th-c. A British subject from 1904, he was knighted in 1912, and became superintendent of the Indian Archaeological Survey (1910–29). |
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