Aurel Stein Born November 26, 1862, Budapest, Hungary Died October 26, 1943, Kabul, Afghanistan Sir Aurel Stein spent much of his life investigating the ancient history of central Asia. His greatest find was the “Caves of the Thousand...

1862-1943 Hungarian-born British archaeologist and geographer who traveled extensively in central and southern Asia in the 1920s and 1930s. Stein investigated and recorded a large number of prehistoric, classical, and medieval sites in Iran, India, and...

Sir Marc Aurel Stein (Hungarian:Márk Aurél Stein) (26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943) was a Hungarian archaeologist. He was also a professor at various Indian universities. Stein was inspired by Sven Hedin's 1898 work, Through Asia. Stein was...

The early-20th-century archaeological expeditions made by Sir Marc Aurel Stein into the desert wastelands of China captured the public's imagination. In the West, he was hailed as the greatest Silk Road explorer, but to the Chinese, he was an imperialist villain who robbed...

Sir Aurel Stein, Archaeological Explorer. By JEANETTE MIRSKY. Chicago: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 1998. Pp. xiii + 585, maps, illus. This paperbound reprint of Jeanette Mirsky's 1977 biography of one of the great Orientalists is very welcome. Stein (1862-1943) was first and...