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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2015
      November 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139923538
      9781108077606
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139923538
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      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology, Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and The Pacific
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology, Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and The Pacific
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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    The Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) is probably best remembered today for his explorations in Chinese Turkestan, and especially his discovery of the Buddhist treasure of Dunhuang, described in his earlier works, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan and Ruins of Desert Cathay (also reissued in this series). Stein was equally interested in the territory north-west of the North-West Frontier, and in this highly illustrated 1929 work he describes an expedition to survey the route of Alexander the Great's invasion of India in 326 BCE. Having long been intrigued by 'that comparatively small area to the west of the Indus which Alexander's march of conquest towards India for a brief span of time illuminates as it were with the light of a meteor', and by archaeological remains showing a blend of Hellenistic and Buddhist art, Stein offers a fascinating account of an ancient clash of civilisations.

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