Aurel stein biography

Sir Mark Aurel Stein or Aurel Stein (1862-1943), FRAS, was a British-Hungarianarchaeologist and explorer.^[1] He traveled to many parts of South Asia and Central Asia to discover ancient cultures and their remains.^[2]

Aurel Stein discovered 5 letters written in Sogdian known as the "Ancient Letters" in an abandoned watchtower near Dunhuang in 1907.

One of them was written by a Sogdian woman named Miwnay who had a daughters named Shayn and she wrote to her mother Chatis in Sogdia.

Aurel stein biography

Miwnay and her daughter were abandoned in China by Nanai-dhat, her husband who was also Sogdian like her. Nanai-dhat refused to help Miwnay and their daughter after forcing them to come with him to Dunhuang and then abandoning them, telling them they should serve the Han Chinese.

Miwnay asked one of her husband's relative Artivan and then asked another Sogdian man, Farnkhund to help them but they also abandoned them. Miwnay and her daughter Shayn were then forced to be