Digital Rare Book:
On Alexander's Track to the Indus
By Sir Aurel Stein
Published by Macmillan & Co., London - 1929

In the 1870s at the Kreuzschule of Dresden, one of Stein’s teachers gave him a copy of The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian, the 2nd century Greek historian. As a child Stein became fascinated by the great Macedonian conqueror and throughout his life devoted many excursions to tracing the routes and stages of Alexander’s Eastern campaign
and verify the exact places in which critical battles had been fought.

Stein’s attempts to solve the Alexandrian mysteries used his skills in comparative linguistics, history, historical geography and military history:

• the identification of the Rock of Aornos, which Alexander the Great captured from local army on his way to the Indus in 327 B.C.E;

• his route through the Punjab across the
Salt Range to the Jhelum river, and the exact
site of the decisive battle in which he defeated Poros

• the line taken during the near-disastrous retreat from the
Indus Delta to Persia through Gedrosia.

The results of his archaeological and geographical expeditions were published in his book On Alexander’s Track to the Indus (1929) and in various articles.

The meeting point of East and West and the mixture and synthesis of the various cultures flourishing in those places were always the focus of Stein’s scholarly interest. Greek culture transported far into the heart of Asia was manifested in the Buddhist art of Gandhara in Afghanistan and Northern India.

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