SERINDIA MAPS - STEIN

These are photos made from the original maps in Volume V of Serindia, Aurel Stein's report on his Second Expedition into Chinese Turkestan.

The southern part of map sheet # 76 Khotum-tam - Most of this sheet is blank, It shows the route on the northern edge of the Taklamakan from NW to SE - Hami to An-hsi. This is still the route the modern highway between these two small but important towns follows. But in Han times and even when Stein went this way it was a very dangerous route due to lack of water.