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Sand Buried Ruin of Khotan 85a - Ruined building N.i, first find-place of inscribed tablets, after excavation - It was a few of these remarkable tablets that were shown to Stein back at Niya and excited him to rush to collect more, which the young man insisted were still there. Stein was worried that either the tablets had been destroyed by time or had been taken. He prevented any of the laborers from getting near the 'find-place' until he could supervise personally. And the results more than met his hopes - see next photo.

 
     

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