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The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints ...

Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, in the mountains of Uzbekistan, were bustling medieval centers of Silk Road trade between China, Arabia and Europe. Researchers have now mapped the cities using drone ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost cities of the Silk Road in Uzbekistan using drones and LiDAR. The fabled cities had lain buried under mountain pastures for centuries. Light detection and ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been ...

An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected ...

“It’s a really different environment up there,” Frachetti said of the newly discovered Silk Road settlements. “It’s winter there already. It’s freezing cold. We get snow in summer.

Oct 23 (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route ...

Once bustling medieval hubs on the ancient Silk Road, the cities were inexplicably abandoned and left untouched in the mountainous pastures of Central Asia. Using drone-borne LiDAR technology in ...

The settlements, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, are “among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road,” according to a statement from Washington University. The ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A new LiDAR survey of previously discovered Silk Road sites reveals a more sprawling urban history than first imagined. An aerial ...