Ebook {Epub PDF} Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road by Annabel Walker

As to the first question, Stein was the pioneering and dominant archaeologist in the re-discovery during the early 20th century of the ancient civilizations of the eastern Silk Road. The desert and mountain areas he worked in western China and its borderlands with India and Tibet were among the most physically challenging on the planet/5(5). Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road by Annabel Walker. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,  · Annabel Walker. 22 ratings3 reviews. The name of Sir Aurel Stein is linked forever with the Silk Road of Central Asia - one of the great romantic and evocative images of the East. For thirty years, in the face of fierce rivalry, this brilliant archaeologist led the race to uncover a long-lost Buddhist civilization which had lain for a thousand years beneath China's deserts.

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Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road by Annabel Walker. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Marc Aurel Stein () has figured in these pages before. Constant Readers will recall him as the Hungarian archaeologist who spent most of his life in the service of the British Empire in India, most notably and importantly exploring Chinese Turkestan and other parts of Central Asia. In this he pioneered not the Silk Road itself but its recovery for historical memory, as well as the recovery of the cultures which had flourished along its route and then passed into dry, sandy. As to the first question, Stein was the pioneering and dominant archaeologist in the re-discovery during the early 20th century of the ancient civilizations of the eastern Silk Road. The desert and mountain areas he worked in western China and its borderlands with India and Tibet were among the most physically challenging on the planet.