Sand Buried Ruin of Khotan 130 - Halt on the march down the Gulcha valley, Farghana - At the conclusion of his first expedition, Stein traveled through Russian Central Asia and across the Caspian Sea and then through western Russia and Europe to London. He took his crates of artifacts with him. Thanks to the Russian railroads he was able to reach India via London more rapidly than by travel back across the mountains.