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Innermostasia 108 - Packing fresco panels from shrine M v at Miran site with ruined stupa M vi in background. Stein took elaborate pains to cut the frescos free from their walls and then built wooden crates using local dead trees to ship them by camel to the British Museum - he was delighted a year and more later to find that they had made the long journey in perfect condition. He reburied the walls and relics he could not safely take and was horrified when he returned after several years and found that subsequent explorers had wrecked the place in their inexperienced efforts to take relics.

 

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