Sir Aurel Stein's Central Asia Author:Sir Aurel Stein The vast territories of Central Asia and areas bordering the Indo-pak subcontinent played a decisive role through the Silk Route, in the intermingling of occidental and oriental cultures, specially those of Indian, Iranian, Chinese, West- Asiatic and Hellenistic origin. The rich legacy of the Central Asia was completely forgotten and the credit ... more »of its rediscovery goes largely to European explorers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sir Aural Stein being the foremost among them. This is the collection of his works written during the three successive explorations covering a span of seven years in the Central Asian regions between 1900-1916. He discovered a score of Buddhist shrines containing rare murals and varieties of structural relics besides sculptures and other articles.« less