The manuscripts brought back to China by Hs�an-tsang were probably in the same form as the "Bundles of Manuscripts". These bundles of sacred texts were excavated by a British explorer, Sir Aurel Stein from the secret chamber at Tun-huang. The many pages of manuscripts found from the chamber were "compressed over the centuries into hard, fragile little packets by the crushing weight of the manuscripts" (Hopkirk, 167). Stein brought many of his discoveries back to England and later his many findings were examine by the laboratories of the British Museum.