The Festival of Empire opened at the Crystal Palace in north London on 12 May 1911 to celebrate the coronation of George V (r. 1910–1936).

| 1 Fraternity on the Silk Road: The Relationship of Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin Esteban Morin Independent Researcher According to a speech given by the British Indologist L.D. This book brings together over 100 articles and news items relating to Stein and his expeditions, as printed in The Times newspaper between 1901-1943. On 31 March 1943, just back from Las Belas tracing one of Alexander the Great's unsurveyed routes, the scholar, archaeologist and explorer Marc Aurel Stein (b. Aurel Stein’s Methods and Aims in Archaeology on the Silk Road | 3 and his use of a typological sequence dating to determine the chronology of a society, addressed the kinds of historical questions that Stein wished to resolve about the ancient inhabitants of the Silk Road. 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. Watch Queue Queue Sir Aurel Stein in The Times : a collection of over 100 references to Sir Aurel Stein and his extraordinary expeditions to Chinese Central Asia, India, Iran, Iraq and Jordan in The Times newspaper 1901-1943 / with an introduction, annotations and index by Helen Wang / London : Saffron Sir Aurel Stein is one of the least known of the Great British Archaeological explorers of the earlier 20th century. After studying Sanskrit at Vienna, Old … Festooned with international honours, including a British knighthood, the Jewish Hungarian-born orientalist today lies in the lonely Christian cemetery at Kabul, where he died in 1943, aged 80, on the eve of one last great journey into the past. Papers Relating to Sir Aurel Stein, his Activities and his Collections. The Indian pavilion was one among the many exhibition spaces built to celebrate British imperial interests around the world. Aurel Stein was the first European to see, in 1907, the treasures of the library cave. This video is unavailable. Barnett,1 Aurel Stein fi ngered a small object in his pocket at Watch Queue Queue. Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road [Annabel Walker] on Amazon.com. 68 paintings, textiles, manuscripts and block prints from the Stein collections… He was, in fact, a Hungarian Jew, born in Budapest in 1862, though his parents prudently had him baptized into the Lutheran Church. In all Stein marched some 25,000 miles across Central Asia, often in appalling conditions, accompanied always by a small fox-terrier.