ABSTRACT
The German “Turfan” expeditions, so called from their first field of operations, originated in the Berlin Ethnological Museum; they could, indeed, only have originated in this institution, for none other has at its disposition the special knowledge required in planning out such a task. Due credit must always be accorded to Albert Grünwedel, Director of the Indian Section, and to his assistant, F. W. K. Müller, 1 for having recognized the connection between the Buddhist Art of Eastern Asia and that of Ancient Greece and Rome, and for having discovered the way in which such connection has been formed.
