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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 November 2014
    13 February 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107256330
    9781108069731
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107256330
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.65kg, 576 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
    Subjects:
    Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology, Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and The Pacific
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
    Subjects:
    Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology, Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and The Pacific
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    Between 1900 and 1901, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) made the first of several significant trips through Central Asia. In 1903, he published this account of his journey from Calcutta to London via the deserts of Chinese Turkestan. The text is richly illustrated with photographs of locations on the route followed by Stein's party, as well as of the people they encountered and many of the artefacts they excavated in the vicinity of the ancient oasis town of Khotan. Stein intended his book to be accessible to non-specialists, and his descriptions of the many important archaeological discoveries, such as Sanskrit texts of Buddhist scriptures, are interspersed with compelling human details and anecdotes about traversing the challenging terrain of eastern Central Asia. The work of an indefatigable explorer, this book sheds light on the spread of Graeco-Buddhist culture along the Silk Route.

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