Sir Aurel Stein sent back 40,000 artifacts back to the British Museum from China. His feats were described by one of his contemporaries as the most daring and adventurous raid upon the ancient world that any archaeologist has attempted. While his life’s work is celebrated in the western world, he is remembered in a very different way by countries whose heritage he ‘looted’. The heritage taken is China’s parallel to the Greek claim on the Elgin Marbles – priceless friezes taken from the temple of the Parthenon in the 19th Century: both are unique cultural relics taken away by Europeans.”