Western Region Travel Series 03: Niya Ruins and Andil Ruins (new Knowledge)
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From 1900 to 1901, 1906 to 1908, and 1913 to 1916, Aurel Stein, a British Hungarian, successively went to my country's Xinjiang and Hexi regions to conduct archaeological expeditions and published archaeological reports on these three expeditions: "Ancient Hotan - A Detailed Report on Archaeological Excavations in Xinjiang, China", "Archaeological Map of the Western Regions", and "Archaeological Map of the Heart of Asia". These three works are Stein's masterpieces. They comprehensively describe the ruins and relics of the Han and Tang Dynasties in Xinjiang, my country, as well as the treasures of the Dunhuang Grottoes and the Buddhist art of the Thousand Buddha Caves. They reveal the mystery of the ancient civilization in the region and the exchange and integration of Chinese and Western civilizations. The Travels in the Western Regions series integrates the archaeological data of Stein's three expeditions to western China and integrates and revise the above-mentioned archaeological reports so that the public can more easily understand the process and results. There are 15 volumes in the series. This volume is from "Ancient Hotan - A Detailed Report on Archaeological Excavations in Xinjiang, China": In the first half of 1901, Stein excavated the Niya and Andil ruins for the first time and obtained a large number of documents in Khalur, Chinese and Brahmi, and combined the unearthed cultural relics to interpret the historical secrets contained in these documents.
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