Sir Aurel Stein

A Lecture Read Before the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, October 27, 1913

In Memoriam Theodore Duka (1825-1908).

Text, with descriptive list of antiques by F. H. Andrews, seventy-two illustrations in text, and appendices by L. D. Barnett, S. W. Bushell, E. Chavannes, A. H. Church, A. H. Francke, L. de Lóczy, D. S. Margoliouth, E. J. Rapson, F. W. Thomas

"The Hungarian born Aurel Stein was a British archaeologist and geographer noted for his pioneering exploration of Central Asia. This is an account of his second major expedition, from 1906-8. Returning to Khotan, Stein extended his original explorations farther eastwards for nearly a thousand miles. It was on this expedition that Stein explored the western end of the Great Wall of China and discovered the Cave of the Thousand Buddhas at Tun-Huang, where he made his greatest discovery of a vast library in a cave sealed since the 10th century. He removed thousands of documents including a copy of the Diamond Sutra whose date makes it the earliest printed book."--abebooks website.

Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China

Ruins of Desert Cathay

A Journey of Geographical and Archarological Exploration in Chinese Turkestan

Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China Carried Out and Described Under the Orders of H.M. Indian Government

Serindia

On Alexander`s Track To The Indus: Personal Narrative Of Explorations On The North-West Frontier Of India

Hatim's Tales; Kashmiri Stories and Songs

Sir George Abraham Grierson

An Account of a Dardic Language of the Swat Kohistan

Torwali

Report of Archaeological Survey Work in the North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan, for the Period from January 2nd, 1904 to March 31, 1905

Report of Archaeological Survey Work in the North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan for the Period from January 2nd, 1904, to March 31st, 1905

Innermost Asia: Plates

Innermost Asia; Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kan-su and Eastern Īrān, Carried Out and Described Under the Orders of H. M. Indian Government

Helen Wang

Sen Hua

This book focuses on the money of Eastern Central Asia to c. AD 800, a period of over 900 years, across a vast geographical area with a very diverse population of different cultures and traditions. The only relevant historical accounts are those found in the Chinese dynastic histories, yet these contain few references to money in Eastern Central Asia. This study therefore depends almost entirely on the archaeological evidence for money found at sites in the region, in the form of coins and contemporary documentary evidence. The book is arranged in four parts. The first part presents the background to the study, the second the numismatic evidence, the third gives the evidence for money in the contemporary documents excavated at sites in Eastern Central Asia, and the concluding part brings together the data from the numismatic and documentary evidence to create a new framework for money in early Eastern Central Asia.

The Evidence from Eastern Central Asia to C. AD 800

Money on the Silk Road

Serindia: Text

On Alexander’s Track to the Indus, first published in 1929, is Aurel Stein’s account of the expeditions he mounted following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great during the triumphant invasion that, interestingly, left not a trace in Indian literature or tradition. Stein’s account has justifiably achieved cult status for the dangers and hardships encountered during his own expeditions; for the light it sheds on Alexander’s invasions, and the wonders of Stein’s discoveries (such as Alexander’s Aornos); the illumination it offers on all fields of interest from archaeology to Indian literary culture, Graeco-Buddhist art and the spread of Buddhism right across Asia. The remarkable Aurel Stein communicates his passions and enthusiasms effortlessly to the fortunate reader of this classic. “Stein has a claim to be called the greatest archaeologist-explorer of all: read this and you’ll see why”—Michael Wood Richly illustrated throughout with maps and black-and-white photographs.

Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India

On Alexander’s Track to the Indus

Sir Aurel Stein

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