The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ... used drone-based lidar to map two mountainous cities at the western end of Tien Shan in the modern-day Uzbekistan. Both were built over 2,000 ...

For centuries, these abandoned cities lay hidden beneath ... But the new research shows the Silk Road network was larger than previously predicted. Using modern drone mapping technology known ...

revealing them as two of the largest cities on the mountainous part of that world-changing path, or indeed anywhere at such altitude. The Silk Road helped make the modern world, allowing not just ...

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that ... coins from across modern-day Uzbekistan ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves ... The researchers have also uncovered coins from across modern-day Uzbekistan, Maksudov says, suggesting the city may ...

many of the cities that lined the Silk Road have been lost to the annals of antiquity, buried and moved so extensively that a ...

Their footprint was much lower (than modern society’s ... of landscape challenges and technological demands.” Cities along the Silk Road such as Kashgar and Samarkand were “nestled in ...

A thousand years ago, inhabitants of two mountain-top cities in modern-day Uzbekistan experienced ... protecting merchants traveling along the Silk Road, the authors say. "While typically seen ...

High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that thrived along the Silk Road more than ... the naked eye, the modern surfaces of Tashbulak ...

This contemporary “Silk Road” is not merely a reworking of historical paths ... The emergence of second and third-tier cities, driven by a young and digitally savvy population, is opening new markets ...

It now has a dynamic blend of modern infrastructure ... During my travels to the ancient Islamic cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, I learned that tourism offers the most promising value for ...