"SIR (MARK) AUREL STEIN (1862-), British archaeologist, was born at Budapest Nov. 26 1862. Educated in the public schools of Budapest and Dresden and afterwards at the universities of Vienna and Tubingen, where he studied Oriental languages and antiquities, he went to England for further study and then to India, where he became principal of the Oriental College, Lahore, and registrar of the Punjab University in 1888. Eleven years later he was appointed to the Indian Education Service, and for the next two years carried out archaeological explorations for the Indian Government in Chinese Turkestan. In 1906-8 he made further explorations ( see 27.425) in central Asia and western China, receiving the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society. From 1909 he was superintendent of the Indian Archaeological Survey, and in 1913-6 carried out explorations in Persia and central Asia, described by him in the Geographical Journal (1916). He was created K.C.I.E. in 1912. His other publications include Chronicle of Kings of Kashmir (1900); Ancient Khotan (1907) and Ruins of Desert Cathay (1912).