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23 Sep, 2009

Silk Road explorer finds rest in Kabul

Posted by: admin In: Around Beijing| News

By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
KABUL, Afghanistan – If there was ever one “foreign devil” on the Silk Road who most fascinates amateur history buffs, it must be Sir Marc Aurel Stein.
The Hungarian-born British archaeologist’s career sparked an obsession of mine – and no doubt of countless others – with the history of the [...]